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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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B.S. in Piano Performance,
Magna Cum Laude, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY. Over 5
years private and group piano teaching experience. |
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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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B.M., Piano Performance, University of Southern California.
M.A. Liberal Studies, concentration in Philosophy and the Arts,
New School for Social Research. Provisional certification in elementary
education, SUNY Cortland. Over 20 years teaching experience including
piano, music and movement, and various music theory and appreciation
courses. |
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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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Danielle Sofer began serious study of music at the
age of 12 at The Reut School of Arts, and continued her studies
at The Wizo Canada School for Arts and Design in Haifa, Israel.
By age 20 she graduated Suma cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts from
The State University of New York at New Paltz with concentrations
in both piano and viola. Danielle is a recent graduate of Binghamton
University with a Masters of Music in Piano Performance, where she
studied with Michael Salmirs. She has several years of prior teaching
experience with both music majors and non-majors. |
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B.M. in Piano Performance, Cleveland
Institute of Music. M.M. in composition, SUNY, Binghamton. Graduate
work in mathematics. Active local jazz and classical performer and
composer. |
| 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. |
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B.A. in Music Education,
University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. Current graduate studies,
Ithaca College. Experienced performer in jazz, rock and classical
styles. Over 7 years varied teaching experience. |
| 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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B.M. in Music, Vocal Performance emphasis
combined with sociology. Currently pursuing teacher and practitioner
certification in the Feldenkrais Method. Current member of the Cayuga
Vocal Ensemble. Four years prior teaching experience of both individuals
and groups. |
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BM in vocal performance from Ithaca College
(2002), MM in vocal performance from New England Conservatory (2004),
and currently working toward Doctor of Education in Music at Columbia
University's Teachers College. Amanda has taught voice, piano and
general music to children and adults of many ages and levels, most
recently as a graduate assistant in voice performance at Columbia
University, and as an adjunct voice faculty member with the Young
People's Chorus of NYC. She is currently a Lecturer in Music Theory
at Ithaca College where she teaches sight singing. |
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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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