This is a list of accomplishments of WCC piano alumni from 2000-2015. Most of these successes would not have been possible under Dell'Omo's plan. This list appeared initially at the faculty website: http://www.rideraaup.net/
Coordinator of WCC Piano Department Mrs. Ingrid Clarfield
Dr. Laura Amoriello has recently been appointed Assistant Professor of Piano at Ithaca College, where she teaches Secondary Piano and serves as faculty advisor for the MTNA Collegiate Chapter. She has presented at the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and the National Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy Conference, and has been published in Piano Pedagogy Forum and Clavier Companion. She holds the Doctor of Education degree in college music pedagogy from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Rick Hoffenberg, conductor and pianist, has been on the faculty of Marywood University for the past 8 years, where he is currently Associate Professor, Director of Choral Activities, and Co-Chair of the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance. He is also Music Director of the Wyoming Seminary Civic Orchestra. He has spent the past 17 summers at Chautauqua Opera, where he is a pianist, coach, and assistant conductor on the music staff. He received his MM from WCC and his doctorate from Yale.
Dr. Anthony Bernarducci has recently joined the faculty at Clemson University as the Assistant Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Music. He is also an active composer published with Hinshaw Music.
Beverly Lapp received her Ph.D. from Columbia Teachers’ College. She is Director of Piano Pedagogy at Goshen College where she teaches piano and piano pedagogy.
Radek Materka is a Professor of Piano at the School of Music of the National Fine Arts Institute in Mexico City where he works with gifted young pianists. His students have been prizewinners and finalists of several national and international piano competitions in Mexico, Spain and Costa Rica He has presented solo recitals, chamber music concerts in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He has played several concertos with orchestras throughout Latin America (Mozart´s D minor concerto K.466, Beethoven´s Choral Fantasy op. 80 and Paderewski´s A minor concerto). Professor Materka has recorded 2 recitals for television and the Mexican Radio institute. He has presented master classes and pedagogy sessions for teachers at the John Perry Academy of Music´s Summer Festival in Los Angeles.
Bruce Lin is teaching at the University of the Incarnata Word in San Antonio, Texas.
Ferhiz Irani Brewer received Ph.D from University of Oklahoma, Norman. Will begin a tenure track position at Pierce College in Los Angeles Community College District this Fall 2015.
Anthony Baron is teaching at Nazareth College, He also is Director of Music at Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Parish, and continues to work towards his doctorate at Eastman. Anthony has been named to the WCC Alumni Council.
Shannon Hesse teaches at Texas Southern University and the Stephens Episcopal School where she also directs the after-school piano program. She has repeat contracts with numerous organizations across Houston. Shannon has been the official pianist of Cantare (a professional choir) and regularly performs with Houston Symphony members.
Dr. Lauren Kooistra is Associate Director and Research Associate of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at The Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Sabina Pautza Pieslak has been teaching as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at The City College, CUNY, since 2008. She also taught piano privately, composed music, completed her Ph.D. in Musicology/Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan, did research abroad as a Fulbright scholar, and published articles. She also helps high school students prepare for college SAT/ACT writing prep and other tutoring, and exhibits art internationally.
Agnes Poltorak is adjunct faculty in the Piano Dept. at Westminster. She is co-coordinating the secondary piano program and teaching secondary piano classes. She is also on the faculty of the Westminster Conservatory.
Chao Tang (M.M. in Piano Pedagogy and Performance, May 2013) is completing requirements for the Artist Diploma at Indiana University, having recently been appointed as a visiting professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, China, teaching piano secondary for voice majors and accompanying arts for piano majors. He has been performing numerous solo recitals in China and has been touring with the chief flutist of the Shanghai Opera House Orchestra.
Monica Hochsteder has a private studio in Virginia and is on the faculty at a small College near Charlottesville.
Kristen Topham- is an Adjunct Professor of Piano at Longwood University in Farmville, VA. At Longwood, Kristen contributes to the music department by teaching Class Piano and private applied lessons, accompanying for the auditioned choirs and music majors, and teaching the Piano Pedagogy II class. She performs regularly in Faculty Recitals as a soloist, accompanist, and ensemble member. Each fall she tours across Virginia with the Longwood Chamber Singers.
Richard Woo teaches at Westminster Conservatory of Music, He also is on the piano secondary faculty at Westminster Choir College of Rider University as well as the Keyboard Skills faculty at The College of New Jersey He maintains an independent piano studio in West Windsor.
Justin C. Proffitt (M.M. in Piano Pedagogy and Performance, May 2012) is currently completing a Master of Education in Music and Music Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, New York. He has been on the piano faculty of Westminster Conservatory since 2010, and is an Adjunct Instructor at both The College of New Jersey and Westminster Choir College of Rider University, teaching piano secondary classes. Maintaining a private studio in his home in Hillsborough, New Jersey, he is also Music Director at Christ the King Presbyterian Church in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
James Mitchell (MM-PIAC, 2013) spent the year after graduation as an Apprentice Artist at Sarasota Opera. He will join the faculty of West Virginia University next year, and continues to establish himself as a stage director and musical coach at several national opera companies.
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Ben Kaplan (MM-PIPR, 2012) has become a Ballet pianist, engaged by Princeton Ballet.
Jonathan Palmer Lakeland (B.M. in Piano, August 2012) is currently enrolled in the piano accompanying postgraduate program of the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. Jonathan Lakeland recently made his Wigmore Hall debut. He is a student of Julius Drake and Malcolm Martineau at the Royal College.
SuJin Huang completed her DMA in Collaborative Piano at Rutgers University.Pauline Worusski (MM-PIAC, 2014) attended the SongFest program, working closely with Martin Katz, Graham Johnson and John Musto. Is a staff accompanist at Westminster.
So Young Kim (MM-PIAC, 2013) was a fellowship coach at the Aspen Festival.
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Mary Brostrom Bloom is Director of Music Education at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven Connecticut and also teaches piano there.
Ying Ying Christine Chan (M.M. in Piano Pedagogy and Performance, August 2014) is an adjunct piano instructor at the Princeton Day School, has served on the piano faculty of the Westminster Conservatory since 2009, and maintains a piano studio in her home in Franklin Park, New Jersey.
Melissa Falb is a member of the MacPhail piano faculty. She is also the Director of Group Instruction.
Caesfianae Pana Oh Hong (MM-PIPP, 2012) has been teaching at Let's Play Music in Derry, a local music school New Hampshire since 2013 and will start teaching in the Manchester Community Music School in Manchester, NH this Fall. She runs her own private studio in Manchester, New Hampshire. She also serves as a staff accompanist at Bedford ward, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and plays as a soloist and a member of trio locally.
Matthew R. Kiple (B.M. in Piano, May 2012) continues to teach at the Lumberton School of Music in Lumberton, New Jersey and privately in Florence, New Jersey. While studying at Westminster, he was featured in a News at Rider University article by Anne Sears (http://www.rider.edu/news/2011/08/19/serbian-summer). Cathy Smetana teaches piano at the MacPhail School in Minneapolis. She is also the co-coordinator of the Piano Camp in the summer. Outside of teaching, some highlights of her performance career include performing Bach’s St. John Passion with Helmuth Rilling and the Philadelphia Orchestra; the Hindemith Requiem with Wolfgang Sawallisch and Thomas Hampson; and a Christmas Concert in Carnegie Hall.Candice Choi (MM-PIPP, 2012) does private teaching in San Francisco. Heather Atagan Thorarinson '04 and '06 maintains a private studio in the suburbs of Chicago
Craig Coyle (BM-PIAN, 2010) has a private studio on Long Island.
Jason Gallagher (MM 2015) maintains private studio in Princeton area; Administrative assistant to Professor Ingrid Clarfield
Laura Klein (MM-PIPP, 2010) does private teaching and accompanying.
Rose McCathran is a teacher, lecturer, adjudicator, and performer who loves sharing her passion of music. She serves as a solo and collaborative artist and has given performances in the United States and Germany. Dedicated to teaching, she runs McCathran Piano Studio; a studio consisting of thirty-five students ranging in ages and levels. Her piano students have performed beautifully in studio recitals, won composition competitions, successfully fulfilled musicianship examinations, given full-length solo piano recitals, and enthusiastically participated in high level piano competitions and festivals, some of which have awarded her students solo piano performances at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York. Several of her intermediate and advanced students have continued to study piano. Ms. McCathran is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM) and is on the distinguished faculty of the Westminster Choir College Piano Pedagogy Certificate Program, where she teaches courses in piano technique. She is also a member of the Artist Piano Faculty at the Westminster Conservatory in Princeton, New Jersey. In addition, Ms. McCathran serves as an adjudicator for local music festivals and competitions.
Shannon Murphy (BM-PIAN, 2012) does private teaching and church job in NYC.
Eun Sook Jun Park (M.M. in Piano Pedagogy and Performance and M. M. in Organ Performance, May 2012) teaches piano privately in her home in East Windsor, New Jersey. She is keyboardist at Calvary Korean Methodist Church in East Brunswick, New Jersey.
Christopher R. Schimpf (B.M. in Piano, August 2014) is pursuing the M.M. in Piano Performance and M.M. in American and Public Musicology degrees at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. He has a number of private piano students in both New Jersey and Pennsylvani Audrey Peterbark is currently an independent piano and voice teacher serving the Springfield/Burke, the organist at Fairfax Baptist Church in Fairfax City, Virginia and the general music teacher and choral director at Fairfax Baptist Temple Academy in Fairfax Station, Virginia. Ms. Peterbark has been an accompanist for the Prince William County Public School system for two years and currently works as the collaborative artist for the CD Hylton High School Choral Department working with director Tommy Tutwiler.
Kristen Todd '15 has a large private studio in the Princeton area Rebekah So (MM-PIPP, 2011) does private teaching in the Philadelphia area.
Johanna C. De Groot (M.M. in Piano Accompanying and Coaching, December 2014) is on the piano faculty of the Westminster Conservatory. Currently pursuing her second Westminster Choir College of Rider University degree, M. M. in Piano Pedagogy and Performance, this past summer she was a participant in the SongFest art song festival and training program at The Colburn School in Los Angeles and has worked closely with Martin Katz, Graham Johnson and John Musto.
Ashley Grant (BM-PIAN, 2014) is accompanying ballet classes in Cambridge, MA, works at Harvard as administrative assistant in Economics Department, will start Piano Performance certificate program at New England Conservatory.
Andy Icochea, conducted the main Vienna Boys Choir for 8 years, before returning to the US to build a new choir in Boston and is now back in Europe, conducting a huge International Children's Choir. He plays the piano, composes, arranges music and speaks brilliantly to audiences, in several languages. If anyone Googles him they would be impressed indeed.
Ming Luke, conductor ,in the past few years has made important debuts in the US, UK, Russia, France, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, and Austria; and has conducted orchestras such as: Bolshoi Orchestra, Houston Symphony (Dec 2015), Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, Birmingham Royal, San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet Orchestra, l'Orchestre Prométhée (France), Gödöllő Symphony Orchestra (Hungary), Opera San José, Billings Symphony, Sacramento Opera, Nashville Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, Komorni Orchestr Akademie of Prague, the Napa Valley Symphony, and others.
Derrick Goff is active as conductor and coach with Princeton Opera Alliance and the Caramoor Festival.
Andreas Reith, He has 25 private students and sings in the Munich Bach Choir which tours Austria, Italy, Germany, next year will be in Russia performing the St. Matthew Passion. Moscow. He teaches at a summer camp for highly talented children in Lindau, Germany. (Katja Rothfuss, Julie Kemp and Guy Rothfuss's daughter also teaches there) and gives lieder concerts there. He has organized a choir week and concert series at a village and castle in Hungary and will start a music festival there next year that will include chamber concerts and choir activities
Pablo Sabat concertizing steadily as piano soloist and conductor in Peru, and other South American countries.
Matthew Gutwald (MM-PIPP, 2014 & BM-PIAN, 2013) is teaching at Vivaldi Music Academy as one of their core piano faculty, holding a full time teaching schedule of 50-60 students per week. He will audition for local young artist programs that specializes in solo and chamber repertoire and will also accompany vocalists and instrumentalists from Rice University.
Eric Allessee Westminster Conservatory faculty & Mercer County Community College.
Jon Iverson, piano instructor at MacPhail since 2006, He also performs regularly as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician around the Twin Cities area and has been heard with local Minnesota orchestras. Jon’s talents also extend to composing. His String Quartet No. 01 was featured on “Essays of Note,” a syndicated Minnesota radio show. His Overture to an Unwritten Tragedy was premiered under the baton of Dr. Matthew George and his Prelude, Passacaglia and Recitative for solo violin and In Memoriam for solo viola have been taken on tour throughout Europe with English violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved. Student Performance Coordinator, Music Development Program Center Representative, and Keyboard Department Faculty Member
Katianne Janney (BM-PIAN & MUED, 2015) elementary music education position in Harford County School District, Maryland at the Edgewood Elementary School (position as general/vocal music teacher).
Hannah King (B.M. in Piano, May 2013) worked for two years as the Music Library Manager of Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, and has recently been appointed to an administration position with the Charlotte Symphony in Charlotte, North Carolina as Marketing Manager.
Anthony Rafaniello, Class of 2005, graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and Sacred Music. He is the Director of Choral Activities at Cranford High School, a position he has held for the past ten years. In 2010, Anthony completed a Master of the Arts degree in Music Education at Teachers' College, Columbia University. He currently serves as Music Director and Organist at Trinity Episcopal Church, Cranford, has served as the piano accompanist for the New Jersey All-State Chorus for the past two years, and is Secretary of the Westminster Choir College Alumni Council.
Seth Slaymaker resides in Los Angeles, California where he serves in the Army Reserves as a soldier/musician with the 300'th Army Band, "Hollywood's Own". Within that unit he performs on piano, bass guitar, upright bass, electric guitar and percussion in a variety of ensembles ranging from jazz, funk, pop and rock to also performing in marching band ensembles all over the West Coast. Outside of his duties as a Sergeant in the Army, he also runs his own music studio, "Slaymaker Music" teaching a variety of instruments to students of all ages.
Feifei Tang moved back to China after graduating from WCC with a MM in Piano Pedagogy and Performance. She gave a piano recital at Xinghai Music Hall in 2013. . She is currently working at Guangdong Radio and Television in China and is also teaching private piano lessons at her own studio. In 2014 she had an interview on a chat show talking about the differences between Asian traditional piano training and American training style that she experienced on GDTV International channel. The show is called 'FaceTime' which also been upload on YouKu website: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjAyNDE3NDM2.html
Ben Houghton (BM-PIAN & MUTR, 2010) recently completed 18 months working as a company pianist for American Ballet Theater, traveling and performing in venues around the world including the Metropolitan Opera House and the Emitates Palace Abu Dhabi. He is currently volunteering in India, teaching music at The Shanti Bhavan Children's Project. Part of the Westminster Conservatory faculty.
Fang-Ting Liu is on the faculty at Westminster Conservatory and adjudicator for several competitions. Ryan Brechmacher is an active composer, performer, teacher and pianist. As a solo pianist he has given recitals in Ohio and New Jersey, and has served as faculty accompanist for Princeton Day School, accompanist for the Princeton Girlchoir ,the Westminster Youth Chorale, Voices Chorale, and many singers and instrumentalists in the area. He has taught at Bowling Green State University's Summer Piano Camps, Westminster's Middle School and High School Piano Camps. An accomplished composer, his works have been heard across the US and Europe. He has had pieces premiered by the Westminster Schola Cantorum, Westminster Youth Chorale, Bowling Green Junior High School Bands, the Bowling Green Area Community Band, the Cincinnati Children's Choir, the Voices Chorale, the Princeton Girlchoir, and the Princeton Day School Chorus and Chorale. His piece, "The Lobster-Quadrille", won the 2010 Cincinnati Children's Choir Choral Composition Competition. His works have been published through Transcontinental Music Publications, Alfred Music Publishing, and GIA Publications. He has been teaching private piano lessons at Princeton Day School since the Fall of 2007, where he also serves as the Faculty Accompanist and AP Music Theory teacher in the Upper School.
Jordan Timchal (BM-PIAN, 2013) received MM at West Chester.
Jared Tafaro is completing his DMA at Catholic University. He is participating in the Beethoven Festival and will be playing the Hammerclavier, Sonata, Op. 106 at the Smithsonian, September 2015.
Graeme Burgan (MM-PIAC, 2011) has toured Australia as member of a piano-percussion ensemble. He is preparing to record the songs of Paul Hindemith. He also heads a community music school in Bucks County.
Anthony J. Serrao (B.M. in Piano and B.M. in Sacred Music, May 2011), a three-time Rider Scholar while enrolled in undergraduate study at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, is currently enrolled in a Master of Music degree program at Mannes College of Music of The New School in New York, New York, with a concentration in harpsichord.
Joshua R. Wilson (B.M. in Piano, May 2014) has been serving as a piano accompanist, chorus member, and trombonist for the VOICES Chorale in Hopewell, New Jersey. In addition he has been an accompanist to a number of Westminster Choir College students, continued to tutor piano secondary students served as a substitute keyboardist in area churches, and has been teaching private piano students.
Asher Severini- beginning his DMA at University of California at Santa Barbara studying collaborative and solo piano with Robert Koenig. He is the recipient of the Regents Fellowship Award and hasan assistantship in Accompanying. Asher was the winner of the Princeton Festival Piano Competition, Open Class Category and played in masterclasses taught by Steven Spooner, Joseph Kalichstein, and Marina Lomazov, Daniella Mineva, and Natalya Antonova. During recent summers Asher has attended music festivals in Europe and in the US such as MusicFest Perugia and the Atlantic Music Festival.
WCC Alumni now teaching on the faculty of Westminster Conservatory: Erik Allesee. Christine Chan Jessica Rey-de-Castro Jodi-Ann Russel William Sheibinger Erica Schlegel Silver John Paul Velez Richard Woo Fiorella Araya Cheng Tara Cooke-Ventresca Anna de Groot Ikumi Hiraiwa Megan Hofreiter Eric Houghton Eunju Joung Kim Alynn Schwiep Laudenslager Suzanne Lehrer Teresa Lim Fang-Ting Liu Rose McCathran Christopher McWilliams Agnes Poltorak Cecelia Reilly
Compiled by:
Ingrid Clarfield, Coordinator Ena Barton Jim Goldsworthy Phyllis Lehrer J.J. Penna
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