Samantha Bassler (Music Theory)
Samantha Bassler obtained a Bachelor of Sacred Music degree from Nyack College and a Master of Studies in Musicology from the University of Oxford (UK). The title of her master's dissertation at Oxford was "Messiaen, Modernism and an Idea of the Sacred," in which she inspected traditional and avant-garde compositional procedures in the "sacred" music of Olivier Messiaen. Samantha is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Musicology; her two primary research areas are music and politics in the English Reformation (1550-1600) and the reception history of William Byrd's Latin-texted motets in 19th- and 20th-century Britain.
*Stephen Bryant (Voice)
Bass-baritone Stephen Bryant's distinguished career in concert and opera has taken him around the world, with acclaimed performances in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Mr. Bryant has sung with the New York City Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, and other companies of renown. In performance with major orchestras from The New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra, to the Israel Philharmonic and Japan Philharmonic, Bryant has delighted audiences with a repertoire spanning from Mozart and Verdi to Virgil Thomson and Stewart Wallace. A premiere interpreter of the works of Academy Award-winning composer Tan Dun, Bryant created the role of Dante in the world premiere of the opera Marco Polo. He reprised the role at London's Barbicon Center for a performance broadcast by the BBC. Numerous other performances include appearances at the Munich Biennale, the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, New York City Opera, the Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo, Settembre Musica in Torino, Italy, and at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in Scotland. The Times of London referred to the " . . . unearthly overtone singing, brilliantly accomplished by Stephen Bryant." Stephen holds a Bachelors from Oberlin and a Master's from the University of Michigan. On the voice faculty at William Paterson University, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife Caryl, and their two sons, David and Andrew.
Gary Capetandes (Trombone)
Gary Capetandes, Trombone, attended the Manhattan School of Music and graduated from the Juilliard School; studies with Edward Herman Jr., NY Philharmonic, Vincent Penzarella, NY Philharmonic and Steve Norrell of the Metropolitan Opera. Orchestral appearances include the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Little Orchestra Society, New York Choral Society, The Orchestra of St. LukeÕs, St. Cecelia Orchestra and Chorus, and both the Westfield Symphony and Colonial Symphony of New Jersey. He has appeared with the orchestras of several Broadway shows including Showboat, The Music Man and The Lion King. Mr. Capetandes has been an Adjunct at WPU since 1998.
Tom Charsky (Music Education)
Thomas R. Charsky holds a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Music in Organ Performance from The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. He has completed additional graduate studies in music education and supervision from Teacher's College-Columbia University, The Hartt School-University of Hartford and Montclair State University. He holds a Level 3 Orff Schulwerk Certification and has had extensive training in both Kodaly and Dalcroze Eurthymics. He currently teaches courses in Music Education and Music Appreciation at William Paterson University and Caldwell College.
Richard Clark (Trombone)
Richard Clark is principal trombone of American Symphony Orchestra, Stamford Symphony Orchestra, NY Pops Orchestra, and Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, co-principal trombone of NE Pa Philharmonic and member of Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble. He has performed with New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, EOS Ensemble, Orchestra of St Lukes, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and NYC Opera. Some Broadway shows Mr Clark has played include: Gypsy, The Music Man, The Sound of Music, Candide, The King and I, The Frogs, Spamalot, Three Penny Opera, Tarzan the Musical, Mary Poppins, and A Chorus Line. Mr. Clark has played concertos with Solisti New York Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey City University Symphonic Band, and William Paterson Wind Symphony. Mr. Clark has recorded for Sony Classical, Capital, Columbia, Warner Bros., Nonesuch, and Koch International labels.
Peter Coll (Music Appreciation)
Peter Coll, an ethnomusicologist, has taught Music Appreciation and World Music courses at William Paterson since 1999. In addition to teaching, he is Director of Music at a suburban church in Bergen County. He holds degrees in music from Rutgers University (A.B.), Hunter College-CUNY (M.A.) and conducts research in various ethnomusicological subject areas, specializing in religious and ritual music and music of the Baltic region. He is a member of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the National Association of Pastoral Musicians.
Sandra Dackow (String Methods)
Sandra Dackow holds three degrees from the Eastman School of Music and currently serves as Music Director of the Hershey Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania. An Aspen Conducting fellow, she was awarded the Silver medal in the 2001 Vakhtang Jordania/New Millennium Conducting Competition in Ukraine. Dr. Dackow has published over 80 works for student orchestras and is an author of Alfred's Orchestra Expressions. She has appeared as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the US and abroad. Sandra Dackow serves as President of the Conductor's Guild, an international organization serving conductors in 31 countries. One of the orchestra conductors at Interlochen Arts Camp, she will be appearing this season with orchestras and educational gatherings in Ireland, Australia and China, as well as throughout the US.
*Joel Craig Davis (Band)
Sarah Davol (Oboe/English Horn)
Sarah Davol has performed on Broadway for Mary Poppins, Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma, Jekyll &Hyde, Little Women, Bombay Dreams, and was solo oboist for LaChiusa’s Bernarda Alba at Lincoln Center. She performs with orchestras and festivals from New York to Los Angeles including American Ballet Theater, American Classical Orchestra, Caramoor, Concert Royal, Handel &Haydn Society (Boston), Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, Washington Bach Consort and more. She has performed concertos with Amor Artis, Concert Royal, Vox Ama Deus (Philadelphia) Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, toured South America as soloist with Bachanalia, and her recording of Sunbin Kim’s “Aphorisms” for solo oboe won a national ASCAP award. She directs Englewinds, a new music ensemble described as “cutting edge” by Lucid Culture. She may be heard on recordings on BMG, Centaur, Dorian, Harmonia Mundi, Helicon, Loft, Lyrachord, Music Masters, Newport Classics, Okenti, Smithsonian, Teldec, Titanic and Vox. Sarah Davol's website and Engle Winds website.
*Karen Demsey (Flute, Music History)
Dr. Karen Demsey, M.M. Eastman School of Music, D.M.A. Rutgers University, is Associate Professor of flute and music history at William Paterson University. She has published articles on flute pedagogy, presents clinics and master classes throughout the country and is principal flute with the professional orchestra in residence at William Paterson University. Her new CD, Recollections of the Inland Sea, internationally distributed on Capstone Records and featuring music for flute and marimba with duo partner Greg Giannascoli, includes the premiere of a work commissioned for the duo. She is a member of the Artists International Award-winning chamber group, UpTown Flutes, and is featured on their new CD, A Flute Renaissance. The group's Carnegie Hall debut was described in New York Concert Review as "organic...mesmerizing....UpTown Flutes deserves major attention as they are top-notch and one of a kind." (June 2002)
Robert Dowling (Piano Technician, Piano Tuning)
*Diane Falk-Romaine (Music Education)
Dr. Falk-Romaine, soprano, joined the William Paterson University Music Department in 1992 as the Director of Music Education. She holds a B.A. in music from Montclair State University, and an M.A. and Ed.D. in Music Education from Columbia University. Dr. Falk previously has taught at the University of Redlands in southern California; at Teachers College, Columbia University, Montclair State University; and with the Rutherford (NJ) public schools. She has had an active career as a soloist and professional chorister performing throughout the United States including concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and The White House, and touring with the Goldovsky Grand Opera Company. Committed to excellence in music education, Dr. Falk has presented clinics at in-service conferences, served as a member of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Music Educators Association and as chair for the National Collegiate Advisory Committee for MENC. She has had articles published in several music education journals and arrangements for handbells published by Harold Flammer. She is an active conductor, specializing in choral music, and many school and community musical theater productions.
John Ferrari (Percussion)
John Ferrari is active in classical, jazz, pop, Broadway, film, television, dance music, and the avant-garde. He performs and gives master classes nationally and abroad, and appears on dozens of recordings as percussionist, drummer and conductor. He is a founding member of the Naumburg Award winning New Millennium Ensemble, a regular guest artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Chamber Music Northwest and has been a member of Meridian Arts Ensemble since 1993. In fall 2007 he joins the faculty of Manhattan School of Music's Masters in Contemporary Performance program. He holds DMA and MM degrees from SUNY Stony Brook, and a BM from William Paterson University where he has served on the performing arts faculty since 2002
*Carol Frierson-Campbell (Music Education)
Carol Frierson-Campbell, Assistant Professor of Music Education at William Paterson University, holds degrees from Tennessee Technological University, Ithaca College, and the Eastman School of Music. She is the academic editor of Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom: A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform, to be released by Rowman-Littlefield and MENC in April, 2006. An active member of the William Paterson faculty, she teaches courses in music education and research. Dr. Frierson-Campbell's personal research interest is the role of music and music teachers in public schools, especially those in urban settings. Dr. F-C (as her students call her) coordinates the Arts in Urban Schools Partnership, a project that brings high-quality professional development to arts teachers in North Jersey's urban schools. In addition, she serves on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Music Educators Association as the Urban Issues Coordinator, and is an organizer and speaker for the Urban Issues session at the April 2006 Biennial Conference of MENC: The National Association for Music Education.
Darren Gage (Music Theory)
Franco Gennarelli (Violin)
Robert Gray (Double Reeds)
Michael Gribbroek (Music Appreciation)
*Nan Guptill Crain (Voice)
B.M., M.M. Univeristy of Wisconsin. Advanced vocal study with Vera Rozsa, Cynthia Hoffmann, Bruce Norris. Advanced repertoire study with Martin Katz, John Wushman, Hugues CuŽnod, Peter Pears. Soprano specializing in recital repertoire. Four world premiers: Lennox Berkeley's Sonnet, Aldeburgh, England; Pallas Athena in Samuel Belich's opera Trojan Women, New York City; Donato Fornuto's Songs of Innocence and Experience, Town Hall, New York City; Songs of Gerald Ginsburg, Merkin Recital Hall, New York City. Active in NATS; Clinician in vocal repertoire: University of Wisconsin; SUNY-Albany; Valparaiso University; Penn State; University of Indiana Pennsylvania; Westerly, Rhode Island; Eastern Regional NATS Conference.
Gabriel Handy (Guitar)
Marsha Heller (Oboe)
Warren Helms (Accompanying)
Warren Helms presently is a faculty member of The Juilliard School and also William Paterson University. He served as opera coach at The Manhattan School of Music for eleven years. Mr. Helms was assistant conductor/pianist for the Broadway production of Showboat at the Gershwin Theatre and has performed off-Broadway with the Vineyard Theatre. He recently performed with the Three Irish Tenors, Aretha Franklin as well as Clay Aiken. Cabaret experience includes The Rainbow Room, Russian Tea Room. He collaborates with Drew University, Kean University and Westminster Choir College. He is also the Director of Music at The Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Wayne, New Jersey.
Seth Himmelhoch (Guitar)
Fred Irwin (Chamber Singers, Music Appreciation)
Dr. Frederick Irwin is in his fifth year as adjunct professor at William Paterson, where he conducts the Chamber Singers, Summer Choir, and teaches Introductory Conducting and Music Appreciation. Dr. Irwin also serves as Artistic Director of the Community Choral Society of Vernon, NJ. He previously served as Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at Nassau Community College in Garden City, NY. Dr. Irwin is active as a music adjudicator and clinician in the greater New York area. He received his D. M. in Choral Conducting from Indiana University, an M. M. in Choral Conducting from The University of Minnesota and a B.S. in Music Education from Penn State University.
Peter Jarvis (New Music Series, Percussion)
Director of the New Music Series at William Paterson University and the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Peter Jarvis is active as a teacher, percussionist, conductor, director, clinician, composer and copyist. He has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and conductor with any number of new music groups in New York, New Jersey, throughout the USA and abroad. Countless pieces have been composed for him and/or his ensemble by composers from all over the world. He has premiered well over 100 pieces and has recorded extensively for, NAXOS, Kotch International, CRI and several other recording labels. His compositions are published by Calabrese Brothers Music.
David Jones (Music Education)
Mr. Jones earned his Bachelor of Science degree in music education from Wilkes University and his Masters of Arts degree in music education from Montclair State University. Additional graduate work in administration and supervision was completed at Jersey City University and William Paterson University. He taught instrumental music for twenty- seven years. His longest tenures were at Hasbrouck Heights High School and Vernon Township High School. In 1991, Mr. Jones became assistant principal at Vernon Township High School and eventually became the principal. He retired on July 1, 2000. Mr. Jones has served as president of the North Jersey School Music Association and the New Jersey Music Educators Association.
Elka Kirkpatrick (Piano)
Elka Kirkpatrick began her music studies at the State Music School Dobrin Petkov in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Her piano teacher was Zorka Sayan. Elka Kirkpatrick's debut concert was at the age of 10 in a performance of a Mozart concerto with the State Symphony Orchestra. In the following seasons she performed and toured with the orchestra as soloist and orchestral pianist. After a year at the National Conservatory in Sofia she continued her studies at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna, Austria, where her piano teacher was Dieter Weber. During this time Elka Kirkpatrick performed extensively as well as coached singers from the Vienna State Opera. She graduated from the Academy and in the following years worked in the United States at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and at William Paterson University in New Jersey. Elka Kirkpatrick is a distinguished soloist, chamber musician and teacher.
*Gary Kirkpatrick (Piano)
Internationally acclaimed pianist Gary Kirkpatrick is recognized throughout the world as one of America's foremost soloists, chamber musicians, and teachers. Originally from Kansas, he gave his first solo recital at age eleven and graduated with high honors from the Eastman School of Music and the Academy of Music in Vienna. After claiming top prizes at the Stepanov Piano Competition in Vienna and the International Piano Competition in Jaen, Spain, he made his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City. The New York Times praised his "high caliber performance and musicianship" as having "covered a wide gamut of moods with varied pacings within a unified architectural concept." Frequent New York engagements followed, most notably at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, where he was hailed by Musical America as a pianist with a "bright colorful tone, forthright, honest musicianship, and above all, a welcome acuity of timing." Mr. Kirkpatrick's numerous concert tours and television and radio broadcasts have taken him to more than forty countries (encircling the globe more than three times).
*Jeffrey Kresky (Music Theory, Composition)
Jeffrey Kresky is a music theorist, composer, conductor and keyboardist. As theorist he is the author of books and journal essays mostly in the areas of criticism and analysis. His keyboard performances are mostly in contemporary music, and his conducting specializes in the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, and at William Paterson he chairs the music theory area and directs the Program in Music Honors.
Andrew Lamy (Clarinet, Orchestra Class)
Clarinetist Andrew Lamy has received consistent critical acclaim for his sweet, colorful tone, liquid phrasing, immaculate technique, and his energetic performance style. Mr. Lamy has performed live national and international broadcasts with the Metropolitan Opera and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, is a founding member of the Halcyon Trio, and has collaborated with the Artis Quartet of Vienna, the Getty Center, the Lincoln Center Festival, the Mixed-Flock Orchestra Project, and the Mad Coyote Ensemble. His solo engagements include concerti with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, the Haddonfield Symphony Orchestra, the North Shore Philharmonic, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Lamy has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, American Ballet Theater, the Concordia Orchestra, and the Royal Opera of London. Mr. Lamy has appeared as a guest teacher at The Juilliard School, USC, CSU Northridge, Occidental College, Rutgers University, University of Tennessee, University of Maine, Bard College, and the Cal Arts Institute. Students of Mr. Lamy have gone on to attain professional positions in the Milwaukee Symphony, The Pacific Symphony, and the Santa Fe Opera.
*John Link (Composition, Music Theory, Music Technology)
John Link has composed music for diverse media including orchestra, chamber and jazz ensembles, rock bands, and electroacoustic instruments. He has received commissions from Flexible Music, clarinetist Marianne Gythfeldt, pianist Jeffrey Jacob, the Irving Lippel Project, Ionisation, and the Composers Guild of New Jersey, among others, and awards from the Centre Acanthes, ASCAP, and Meet the Composer. His composition Shadow Traffic was hailed by the New York Times as "an extended rhapsody, often lyrical in its horizontal movement but hard-bitten in mood and color." He is a founding member of the composers group Friends & Enemies of New Music, which presents an annual series of concerts in New York City. Link's writings on music have appeared journals in the United States and Italy. He was guest lecturer at the 2002 Oliver Knussen Elliott Carter Workshop at Carnegie Hall and has received fellowships from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, for his work on Carter's sketches. He is the author of Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research (Garland, 2000) and co-editor with Nicholas Hopkins of Elliott Carter's Harmony Book (Carl Fischer, 2002). www.wpunj.edu/coac/music/link/
Miriam Lockhart (Clarinet)
*Payton MacDonald (Percusion)
Payton MacDonald performs with Alarm Will Sound, a chamber orchestra. MacDonald has also appeared as a soloist in England and Croatia, performed with Present Music, and toured Japan with Keiko Abe and the Galaxy percussion group. MacDonald earned his BFA from the University of Michigan, where he studied percussion with Michael Udow. He earned his MM, DMA, and the Performers' Certificate from the Eastman School of Music where he studied percussion with John Beck. Further studies include tabla with Bob Becker and Pandit Sharda Sahai. MacDonald is a disciple of Mr. Sahai. www.paytonmacdonald.com/
Linda Miksza (Accompanying)
Ivan Miller (Trumpet)
Erl Nordstrom (Woodwind Methods)
James Noyes (Saxophone)
James Noyes has appeared with the Long Island Philharmonic, Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, American Brass Quintet, Disney's All-American College Orchestra, SURGE Saxophone Quartet, New York Arts Ensemble, Safe Sax Jazz Quintet, the Blue Hornet Band, and the Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald. Composers who have written for Noyes include Steve Cohen, Jan Feddersen, Eric Nathan, and Michael Patterson. A saxophone historian, composer of Equinox Liturgy, and authority on Claude Debussy, Dr Noyes serves on the faculties of William Paterson University, Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division (former Theory Department Chair), and is Artistic Director of Music at Our Savior's Atonement (MOSA).
Margaret O'Connor (Music History)
Matthew Paterno (Brass)
Mr. Paterno graduated from Rutgers University-Mason Gross School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Music Degree. While there, he studied conducting with Scott Whitener and euphonium with Harold Janks of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Upon graduation, he served as the high school band director and fourth grade instrumental music teacher in the Keansburg public schools. For the past 17 years, Mr. Paterno has been the director of instrumental music at Wayne Hills High School. He has taught at the Mt. Tabor Summer Band School and is a private instructor, brass clinician and adjudicator throughout the area. Mr. Paterno is an adjunct faculty member at William Paterson University, where he teaches low brass methods, applied euphonium and coaches the Tuba/Euphonium ensemble. Mr. Paterno is the musical director of the Metropolitan Brass Band and the associate conductor and principal euphonium of the Hanover Wind Symphony. He has served the North Jersey Area Band Association as President, Vice-President, stage manager and audition host. He has also served as the North Jersey Region I band audition chairman and sectional assistant and as Rehearsal host for the Region I Jr. Band. Mr. Paterno is a recipient of the Eastern Marching Band Association's "Director of the year" award and is listed in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers."
Frank Pavese (Piano)
Lisa Pike (Horn)
BM Manhattan School of Music. MM The Juilliard School. DMA SUNY Stony Brook. Performs with Orchestra St. Luke's, NYC Ballet, Long Island Philharmonic, NY Pops, Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Center for Contemporary Opera, Little Orchestra Society, Brooklyn Philharmonic and original instrument groups American Classical Orchestra, Rebel, New York Collegium and Concert Royal. Featured performer at the 1999 International Horn Society Symposium. Festival appearances: Spoleto USA/Italy, Connecticut Early Music Festival (soloist), Caramoor, Vermont Mozart Festival (soloist), Bard Festival and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Performed in over 30 Broadway shows and with popular artists Elton John, Andrea Bocelli, Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Tony Bennett, Brian Wilson and has appeared on albums by Barry Manilow and Lenny Kravitz. Lisa is the solo horn on the Grammy Award winning recording of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra (New World Records) and has recorded for RCA Victor, Koch International, Music Minus One, Musical Heritage, CBS and numerous television commercials and movie soundtracks. Teaching affiliations: William Paterson University, Columbia University Teachers College, Kean University and Brooklyn College.
Mary Pinto (Accompanying)
Jacques Rizzo (Music Education)
Jacques Rizzo is author of over two hundred educational publications ranging from a set of texts on reading jazz to a songbook for the kindergarten-primary classroom. An ASCAP Award recipient, Dr. Rizzo's publications include original works for chorus, orchestra, and band, transcriptions of classical composers such as Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven, and arrangements of standard American composers such as Gershwin, Kern, Porter, and Rogers. He has directed choral, instrumental, and jazz ensembles at both elementary and secondary levels and served as Supervisor of Fine Arts for the Wayne Township Public Schools. He has been guest conductor of area and region choruses and bands in New Jersey, worked for the NJ Council on the Arts, adjudicated festivals in New Jersey and New York, and presented workshops at conventions of the ACDA, MENC, IAJE, and the NJMEA. He received his doctoral degree from New York University.
*Lynne Rogers (Music Theory)
Professor Rogers received her Ph.D. in Music Theory from Princeton University. Before coming to WPU, she taught at Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Texas. Her articles and reviews appear in Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Journal of Musicology, International Journal of Musicology, Music Theory Spectrum, and Music Library Association Notes. She has presented numerous papers as an invited speaker and at national and international meetings of scholarly societies. She is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Paul Sacher Stiftung, Oberlin College, and the University of Texas.
Ann Roggan (Viola)
Violist Ann Roggen has been awarded grants from Chamber Music America and the National Endowment for the Arts, and is a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. In recent seasons, Ms. Roggen has been heard with the New York Philharmonic and the St Louis Symphony. She maintains an active and vital studio in New York City where she teaches viola and chamber music. As a member of the Bennington College faculty, she has had great success in developing interdisciplinary cultural events designed to combine music with literature, history, dance and language in performance. In her role as Vice President of the New York Viola Society, she has been successful in creating numerous performance opportunities in New York City for dedicated violists to explore repertoire both old and new. Highlights of the 2006-2007 season include solo performances with the Zagreb Chamber Orchestra (Croatia), as well as recitals and master classes under the auspices of the American Cultural Centres in Zagreb and Vilnius, Lithuania. Ms.Roggen received her musical training at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, and the Juilliard School. Her principal teachers and mentors have included Karen Tuttle, Lillian Fuchs, Joseph Fuchs and the Juilliard String Quartet.
Frances Rowell (Cello)
A versatile and enterprising cellist dedicated to musical outreach, Frances Rowell received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Juilliard School. Ms. Rowell has been a member of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 1995. She is on the adjunct faculty of New Jersey City State University and William Patterson University and the President Elect of the New Jersey Chapter of the American String Teachers Association. An inventor as well as a cellist, Ms. Rowell received a United States Patent for a portable endpin resonating platform for the cello.
Timothy Ruedeman (Saxophone)
Timothy Ruedeman, saxophonist, performs actively as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician and is a member of the New Hudson Saxophone Quartet and Flexible Music. Highlights of recent and upcoming seasons include engagements at the Lincoln Center Festival, Miller Theatre, Avery Fisher Hall, Tilles Center, and solo appearances with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and Hanover Wind Symphony. Mr. Ruedeman has given the premieres of over fifty new works for saxophone, and has appeared with the Long Island Philharmonic, Charleston Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Absolute Ensemble, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and the S.E.M. Ensemble. His recordings include the Naxos, Helicon, Allegro Records and Centaur labels. Mr. Ruedeman is currently on faculty at William Paterson University, NYU, and Long Island University. He holds a B.M. from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Masters degree from NYU where he is the recipient of the Founders Fellowship for Doctoral Studies and is currently completing his Ph.D.
Dalia Sakas (Piano)
Dalia Sakas has extensive performance experience as a solo pianist and as a collaborator to instrumentalists, singers and actors. Her performances range from recitals in Weill Recital Hall to the cabaret venue Don't Tell Mama, where she appeared with Jedidjah Oldenburg in a series of performances of melodramas. Dalia Sakas holds a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of South Carolina. Her teachers include Raymond Lewenthal, Raymond Dudley, David Bar-Illan, Yara Bernette and German Diez. Dalia Sakas is an adjunct professor at WPU as well as on the faculty of the Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School of Lighthouse International, a music school for the visually-impaired.
Joseph Santini (Music Education)
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Paul Scott (Tuba)
Paul Scott is a busy freelance tubist in the tristate area and has appeared as soloist with the Ramapo Valley Chamber Orchestra and The Symphony Of Winds of Percussion. Mr. Scott is a member of the North Jersey Philharmonic and the Imperial Brass Quintet and is a graduate of Jersey City State College where studied with Mr. Pasquale Landolfi. He has been the Instrumental Music Director of the River Edge, NJ schools since 1989 and is a resident of Oakland, NJ. Mr. Scott joined the William Paterson brass faculty in 1993.
Scott Simpson (Music Appreciation)
Jonathan Storck (Double Bass)
Jonathan Storck, double bassist, has been a member of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 1978. He holds a BM in performance from Boston University where he studied with Lawrence Wolfe. Jonathan performs frequently with the New York City Opera orchestra and has toured Japan with them. Jonathan also performs with American Ballet Theatre orchestra and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. Jonathan has played chamber music with the Craftsbury Chamber Players including a live performance of the Rossini Duetto for Cello and Bass on public radio. He has also played with the Lenape Chamber Ensemble and Lyrica Chamber Ensemble.
Anastasia Swope (Voice)
Robert Thomas (Music Theory)
Gary Van Dyke (Percussion)
Linda Verdicchio (Music Education)
*David Weisberg (Music Theory, Composition, Music Technology)
David J. Weisberg holds a B.A. in music, an M.A. in music theory and composition and a Ph.D. in music theory and composition from Rutgers University. At Rutgers, his primary studies in music composition were with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Charles Wuorinen, while he also had the opportunity to study jazz piano with six-time Grammy nominee Kenny Barron. He has composed for all genres and styles, and his works have been performed at various concerts and festivals in the New York area, including June in Buffalo. Dr. Weisberg is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at William Paterson University and also serves as Director of Music Admissions. He has been involved in numerous performing ensembles, including the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, the Mad Coyote, the New Jersey Pops and Ionisation, as a composer, performer and panel moderator.