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CLASS OF 2007
La Tarsha Long is one of four resident artists at the Connecticut Opera for 2007-2008.
Elise Kopesky is a Development Assistant at the San Francisco Conservatory.
Elisabeth Mehl Greene is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition at the University of Maryland, where she is a graduate assistant for the university’s athletic bands.
Saxophonist Paul Saunders is teaching at Gordon College and at the Fabulous School of Music.
Rachael Chagat works at Longy and runs a choral camp in Ohio each summer. She enjoys running when she is not working or practicing.
Arlyn Valencia is a fellow at Community MusicWorks in Providence. She also teaches at the Framingham Performing Arts Center.
Ashley Hall moved back to Cincinnati and resumed her post with the Dayton Philharmonic. She recently won the principle trumpet position with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Later this spring, she will travel to India with her fiancé Nate Tighe to work with orphans.
CLASS OF 2006
Currently living in New York City, Aaron Butler is teaching Dalcroze Eurhythmics at the Lucy Moses School.
A double bassist, Julia Shulman is a first year DMA student at Eastman, where she is also an aural skills teaching assistant.
Composer Eva Kendrick is music director at the First Parish Unitarian-Universalist in Medfield, MA. In September, she started teaching solfege, theory, and private lessons at the Community Music Center of Boston. She recently married Christopher Kale Conley in Oahu, Hawaii. Her piece, “Famous” for children’s choir, adult choir and string quartet was commissioned and performed by the First Needham Parish and Grace Episcopal Church.
Violinist Sarah Glenn works at Longy and teaches violin at the North End Music and Performing Arts Center. She is involved with the Park Street String Quartet. After graduating from Longy, she and her husband Andy adopted two English Bulldogs, Bones and Stu.
Amy McGlothlin is Adjunct Professor of Saxophone at Salem State College.
Ching Yeo is Assistant to the President at New England Conservatory.
Flutist Meghan Miller recently joined the faculty of Longy where she maintains a private studio and is the director of the Preparatory Flute Ensemble. She is co-founder of Duo Voix Claire, a flute/piano duo with Mika Tanaka. She also is the flutist and co-founder of the Fifth Tier New Music Ensemble. Meghan began pursuing her doctorate in flute performance in Fall 2007 at Boston University. She was recently a finalist in the James Pappoutsakis Flute Competition.
Violinist and Page Turner Extraordinaire Michael Winer recently turned pages for Peter Serkin at Symphony Hall and for Gil Shaham at Jordan Hall.
CLASS OF 2005
Laura (Siegel) Schechter is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Brandeis in musicology.
Composer Caglar Arsu is pursuing his master’s degree at Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. He is studying with Cr. Michael Ellison and will soon submit his thesis, “Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra.”
Stephanie McGuire is currently singing at the New York City Opera.
Richey Tally is the new patron services manager of the Berkeley Symphony.
Pianist Shoko Baba currently lives in Japan but misses Boston. She was the 1st prize winner of the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition and performed in Carnegie Hall in October, 2006 and in May, 2007. She works for the Tokyo International Music Company, translating master classes and lectures.
Ellen Santaniello recently joined the Terra Nova Consort, an early music ensemble based in Oregon, as soprano and percussionist, and has been performing with them for the past year. She continues to play wild folk music and newly composed chamber music (most recently a piece for 3 hurdy-gurdies--two of them giant) with her friends from Rhode Island. She is on the voice faculty at Rhode Island College and directs their early music ensemble. The baby she used to drag to class has turned into a happy 5-year old with very good pitch.
Flutist Trisha Craig is on faculty at Johnson State College in Vermont. She owns a music school in Hampton, NH, and also teaches at a school in Manchester, NH. She writes and teaches marching band drill in Dracut, MA, and plays all over the place. She is also on the Board of Directors for Beagles of New England States.
Carola Emrich-Fischer is keeping busy performing in and around Boston, as well as in Germany. She recently was a featured soloist in Lior Navok’s “And the trains kept coming…,” which premiered in Jordan Hall. Carola also frequently performs with the Libella Quartet, one of Boston’s most exciting new vocal quartets, as well as with the Handel and Haydn Society. Carola and her husband, Colin, are expecting their second child in July 2008.
Angela Beth Carr is living in Okinawa, Japan, working as the music minster/associate pastor for the Keystone Church of the Nazarene.
CLASS OF 2004
Ana Catalina Ramirez is pursuing her master’s degree at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She recently won the Principal Clarinet position in the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra.
Currently living in Atlanta, Belinda Yu is working as a Video Journalist at CNN. She received her Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in June.
Ji Young Lee has been at the Washington National Opera for the past two years, under the leadership of conductor Placido Domingo. Her roles at the National Opera included Gilda (Rigoletto) and she sang lead on La Fille de Regiment. This season, she will be singing at the New York City Opera.
Matthew Wright currently teaches guitar at Indian Hill Music Center in Littleton, and at Riverside Theatre works in Hyde Park. He is also the tenor section leader at Eliot church in Newton. He is still slowly taking over the world with his group, Seven Times Salt.
Yong Im Lee is currently pursuing her DMA in Piano Performance at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. She is expected to graduate in May of 2008.
Karen Burciaga works at Longy and frequently performs with her group, Seven Times Salt.
Laura Marshall recently returned from a summer abroad as a guest at the renowned Franz Schubert Institute in Baden, Austria. Favorite performances include: Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, St. Ursula in St. Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins with Ars Nova in Boulder, CO, Lieder beym Klavier zu singen with the Boston Clavichord Society, and singing the Top 10 on Late Night with David Letterman.
Hilary Philipp recently received the 2008 Ralph Gomberg Oboe Merit Award. After graduating from Longy, she pursued her master’s degree at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with Fred Cohen and graduated in 2007. Last summer, Hilary was awarded a fellowship to attend the Festival International de Inverno I Campos do Jordao, Brazil. Currently, she is performing with orchestras around New England.
Pianist JeeYeon Yim lives in Seoul, Korea. In addition to giving performances and teaching piano at several colleges including her alma mater, she teaches classes on 20th Century American Music and Research Techniques and Bibliographies.
CLASS OF 2003
Violinist Frederic Bednarz, is currently playing with the Molinari Quartet.
Kristin Hertzenberg is playing “Christine” in the Las Vegas production of Phantom of the Opera.
Pianist Momo Shinohara recently won 2nd prize in the International Schubert Competition in Dortmund, also receiving the special prize for the best performance of a Schubert Sonata.
Elizabeth Hays was recently named the Executive Director of the Washington Sinfonietta, a new chamber music orchestra in Washington D.C., which she performs regularly with. Elisabeth was recently engaged and will be married in July 2008.
After graduating from Longy, Elias Morales-Carino returned to Mexico, where he was appointed as Full-Time Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. His roles include teaching, accompanying, coaching, performing, and researching. He has also completed a second Master’s Degree in Musicology. He would like to say “Thank you Longy!”
Theodore S. “Ted” Davis is the organist and choirmaster at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Baltimore, MD. Ted’s “debut” on the Baltimore-Washington D.C. airwaves was broadcast in October. He was interviewed by WBJC-FM’s Mark Malinowski for the weekly “Toccata” program, following Ted’s performances of works by Bach and Mulet at St. Bartholomew’s. Also in October, Ted was featured on American Public Media’s Pipedreams, a national broadcast. On a program entitled “The American Muse”, Ted performed the world broadcast premiere of “Chaconne” by, Leigh Baxter, a composer from Virginia.
CLASS OF 2002
Jayne Tankersley is back in her home country, New Zealand, teaching, conducting choirs and singing. She is hoping the Early Music scene in New Zealand will improve in the next few years with her help. She is very busy with her three children, Harry, Ollie, and Juliette.
Soprano Ann Moss is currently living in the San Francisco Bay area after finishing a post graduate degree at the San Francisco Conservatory in 2005. She sings a lot of contemporary chamber music and is performing the coloratura role with a local opera company. She also teaches a roster of students from various musical backgrounds.
Mezzo-soprano Sara Bielanski-Lozano frequently performs in the greater Boston area. She has sung with Opera Boston, Boston Pops and BSO Chorus, Chorus Pro Musica, and Longitude. She has sung jazz at many area venues, and has been involved with several recording projects. She is the vocalist of The Meltdown Incentive, a Boston-based classical improvisation group that regularly performs at area school sand galleries.
Lorna Jane Norris is the co-chair of the voice department at South Shore Conservatory. She is very interested in uniting the worlds of singing and body awareness through her work as a yoga instructor. Recently, she was a quarterfinalist in the American Traditions Competition in Savannah, Georgia.
CLASS OF 2001
Lisa DeSiro is the Editorial and Production Assistant for C.P.E. Bach: The Complete Works, a publishing project of the Packard Humanities Institute. She organized an alumni concert at Longy on November 2, 2007.
Violinist Tobias Steymans is the concertmaster of the Zurich Opera House.
Brenna Wells was recently selected as a semi-finalist for the Chimay Baroque Vocal Competition to be held in September, 2008 in Chimay, Belgium. She received a grant from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust for performing artists to fund her participation in the competition.
CLASS OF 2000
Flutist Sarah Brady is currently on faculty at the Boston Conservatory. She recently placed second in the National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition. She performs with the Boston Ballet, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Opera Boston and the Indian Hill Symphony Orchestra.
Xin Ding plays in the first violin section in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where she has been since 1999.
Brenna Wells just sang as a young artist in the Ton Koopman Workshop: Handel Works for Singer, as part of the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall. She was also one of two singers chosen for a fully-funded scholarship to sing in the Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini Early Music Seminars in Venice, Italy in May 2008.
CLASS OF 1999
Carolyn Smith performs regularly in the Boston area. She teaches recorder classes at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. If you are interested in a novel about life in Pompeii in the shadow of the volcano, check out her mom’s new book, The House of the Faun.
CLASS OF 1974
Since graduating from Longy, Louis Arnold has been on the Applied Music faculties at a number of schools and colleges. In 1985, he made a career move to industry to earn money to support a family. He has continued to teach and play guitar.
Will Dick is the chair of the Guitar Department at the Brookline Music School. He has recorded classical, popular and original music for guitar and vocals. He has performed extensively throughout eastern U.S.
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