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2011 Faculty continued20he studied clarinet with Anthony Gigliotti andRonald Reuben and conducted with Luis Biavaand Arthur Chodoroff. He has studied conductingwith some of today’s most prominent instructorsincluding Mark Davis Scatterday, Timothy Reynishand Larry Rachleff. Presently, he is working tocomplete his M.M. in Orchestral Conducting withBruce Hangen at The Boston Conservatory.Ellie Mooney enjoys adistinguished career as anactor, choreographer, directorand teacher. She has servedas the director/choreographerfor three national tours andcountless regional theatercompanies. In addition, heracting has earned her a Barrymore Nominationfor “Best Leading Actress in a Musical” and again,for “Best Leading Actress in a Musical.” She issought after as a teacher for popular classesaddressing topics such as Audition Technique,Song and Scene Study, Dance for Musical Theaterand Musical Theater Master Classes.Dr. Michael W. Nickens joinedthe George Mason UniversityDepartment of Music faculty inAugust of 2006, where he codirectsthe Symphonic Band,directs the GMU pep bandand teaches Sight-Singing andEar Training. His backgroundhas been based in tuba performance, and hehas been a member of Michigan’s renownedCreative Arts Orchestra as well as other musicalensembles that focus on improvisation such ashis trio t.l.a.o.o. and Everyone a Pope. He receivedhis B.M. from the Manhattan School of Music; hisM.M. from Yale University and his D.M.A. fromUniversity of Michigan.Christiane Oppenheimer-Vaida(cello) completed her musicalstudies at the Hochschule fuerMusik in Frankfurt, Germany,under the tutelage of ProfessorSusanne Mueller-Hornbachand has undertaken additionalstudies with Gerhard Mantel,Siegfried Palm, Hubert Buchberger, Ulrich Vossand Menachem Pressler (Beaux Arts Trio). Shetaught at Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen andheaded the string department for the BuseckMusic School while performing regularly bothas soloist and chamber musician throughoutGermany. Currently a member of MarywoodUniversity’s string faculty, Oppenheimer-Vaidaalso serves as an artist-in-residence at WyomingSeminary. She is an active freelance performerwith various chamber ensembles and orchestrasthroughout the region.James Orfanella (jazz band conductor) has beena professional musician and music educator forover 20 years with a B.M.E from the Universityof North Texas. Currently teaching at Valley ViewHigh School in Archbald, Pa.,he performs in a wide varietyof styles from jazz to rock toclassical. He is currently studyingtraditional Japanese shakuhachiflute under Ronnie NyogetsuReishin Seldin at the Ki Sui Andojo. Orfanella is also half ofTribal Waves, a duo which combines a variety ofworld wind instruments, including didgeridoos,flutes and jaw harps, with percussion rangingfrom drum set to Tibetian singing bowls to createan improvisational ambient trance experience.Enid Blount Press (clarinetist)has performed at many of themajor performance venuesin New York, including SternAuditorium and Weill Recital Hallat Carnegie Hall, Avery FisherHall at Lincoln Center, MerkinRecital Hall, and the KnittingFactory, as well as at numerous other nationalvenues. Press has been a concerto soloist withvarious orchestras and plays regularly in newmusic concerts. She has performed extensivelyas a chamber musician while touring in the U.S.,Germany and Italy. Press holds an M.M. in clarinetperformance from the University of SouthernCalifornia and a B.M. from Oberlin Conservatory.She is very pleased to teach at PAI for hersecond season in the summer of 2012.Dr. Amanda Quist is a facultymember of the WestminsterChoir College, where sheconducts the Chapel Choirand is co-conductor ofthe Symphonic Choir. Shepreviously was Director ofChoral Activities at San JoséState University. Quist earned her D.M.A. in choralconducting from the University of North Texas,and received her B.M. and M.M. in music educationand choral conducting, summa cum laude,from Western Michigan University. Shehas received numerous awards, includingthe prestigious James Mulholland NationalChoral Fellowship, the Texas Choral DirectorsAssociation Professional Scholarship and theAudrey Davidson Early Music Award. An activeadjudicator and performer, Quist is frequently aguest clinician and conductor, and has recentlyperformed as a mezzo-soprano soloist withthe Santa Clara Chorale and Symphony SiliconValley, as well as the Westminster Choral Festivaland Festival Orchestra.Christa Robinson (oboe)recently moved to NYC fromCanada, where she performedas Principal Oboe with theSaskatoon Symphony Orchestra.She now is a member of theColonial Symphony Orchestra,the Canadian ChamberOrchestra of NYC and the Double EntendreMusic Ensemble. She also can frequently beheard performing with the Harrisburg Symphony,The Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas,the DiCapo Opera and new music ensemblesSequitur, Argento, Alarm Will Sound, the S.E.M.Orchestra and Signal. In addition to a vibrantfreelance career, Robinson is a faculty memberof the Third Street Music School Settlement.She studied with Richard Killmer at the EastmanSchool of Music, where she earned her B.M. inboth Oboe Performance and Music Education.Other teachers have included Dr. Neil Tatmanat the University of Arizona and Jim Mason inKitchenor, Ontario.William Roudebush (Directorof PAI’s Musical TheaterProgram) has directed wellover 275 productions at suchtheaters as Actors Theater ofLouisville, Cleveland Play House,The Hanna Theater, SyracuseStage Company, Walnut StreetTheater, Mint Theater Company, Ensemble StudioTheater and the John Houseman Theater in NewYork City. He is nationally known as an educator,having taught at the American Academy ofDramatic Arts in New York, Temple University,Virginia Commonwealth University and TheUniversity of the Arts. In 1995, he developedan innovative curriculum for the Walnut StreetTheater School, for which he earned an awardfrom the Pennsylvania Council of the Artshonoring the unique outreach program. Author ofActing by Mistake, Roudebush brings more than40 years of teaching and directing experience toPAI where he collaborates with his students andprofessional staff.Christina Roytz (music theoryfaculty/head music librarian) is acellist in the Amman SymphonyOrchestra and a faculty memberof the Department of Fineand Performing Arts at King’sAcademy, Amman, Jordan. As aguest soloist, she has performednumerous works with orchestra includingTchaikovsky’s “Rococo Variations”, Bruch’s “KolNidrei” and Faure’s “Elegie.” In 2010, she wasalso the featured soloist in the premiere ofCharles Loos’ “In C (Minor)” for cello and piano.Formerly the cellist in the New Century StringQuartet and the Amphion String Quartet, shewas featured live on National Public Radio. Priorto moving to Amman, Roytz was a member of theAshland, Mansfield and Lima symphonies and wasa substitute cellist in the Toledo Symphony. Shecompleted her B.M. at Cleveland State Universityand is currently on a temporary hiatus fromher master’s coursework at Carnegie MellonUniversity, where she is the recipient of a fulltuitionfellowship.Dr. Martin H. Seggelke (wind ensembleconductor) teaches at the University ofMinnesota, Morris, where he conducts the U.M.M.Wind Ensembles and serves as professor of
For information about our application, residential life & listening gallery » visit wyomingseminary.org/paiconducting and clarinet. Prior tohis appointment there, he taughtconducting at the EastmanSchool of Music and served asassistant to the director of theEastman Wind Ensemble andthe Eastman Wind Orchestra.Martin also was a conductorand board member for OSSIA, an Eastmancontemporary music ensemble and served as theassistant director of bands at SUNY Fredonia. Heformerly taught conducting and music history atthe University of Bremen. He holds a D.M.A. inconducting from the Eastman School of Music, anM.M. from SUNY Fredonia and an M.M. from theUniversity Of Bremen, Germany.Julia Shulman (classical bass)received her B.M. from theJerusalem Rubin Academy ofMusic and Dance and her M.M.from Longy School of Music. Anactive freelancer and teacher,Shulman is currently pursuing aD.M.A. from the Eastman Schoolof Music. She has studied under the tutelage ofIstvan Lukacshazi, Michael Klinghoffer, PascaleDelache-Feldman and James VanDemark.Clarence Smith is coordinatorof music at MetropolitanCommunity College-PennValley (Longview and BlueRiver campuses), where hedirects their jazz ensembles. Inaddition, he is music directorof the Kansas City Youth Jazz.Formerly the director of the jazz program atthe Paseo Academy of Fine and PerformingArts High School, his nationally acclaimed jazzensemble performed at the Kennedy Center, TheSmithsonian Institute and the Music Educator’sNational Conference. Smith directs the annualtwo-day MCC-Pen Valley-18th and Vine JazzFestival, and is in demand as a jazz/percussionclinician and adjudicator. In 2000, DownbeatMagazine named Smith “Jazz Educator of theYear” and in 2010 he became the first recipientof the Ahmad Alaadeen Award for Excellence inJazz Education. He is the past chairman of multiculturalmusic for the Missouri Music EducatorsAssociation, and currently serves on the boardof the Mid-America Arts Alliance. Smith earneda B.M. from Central Methodist University, anda M.M. from Lesley University. In 2003 he wasselected as a Music Fellow at NorthwesternUniversity’s School of Music in Evanston, Ill.Rich Thompson is an associateprofessor of jazz studies andcontemporary media at theEastman School of Music. Inaddition to his duties as artist/teacher of drum set, he directsthe Eastman Jazz Lab Band,the fundamentals of jazz drumset class, coaches rhythm sections of combos,and is a member of the Eastman Jazz Trio.Thompson received his B.M. from the Universityof Oklahoma, and a M.M. in jazz studies andcontemporary media (performance) from ESM.He has been a soloist with the RochesterPhilharmonic Orchestra and toured with jazzgreats such as pianist Marian McPartland,guitarist Gene Bertoncini, trumpet legend DizzyGillespie, guitar legend Joe Pass, and trumpet/flugelhorn great Clark Terry, the Glenn MillerOrchestra, the Nelson Riddle Orchestra andthe Count Basie Orchestra. He was reviewedby The Boston Herald saying, “Thompson wasthe powerhouse drummer who drove the Basiesound!” He has written four drum set booksincluding Drum Set Solos Vol. I, Modern JazzSolos for Drum Set (Kendor Music), Billy Hart’sJazz Drumming, and How to Play Drums In A BigBand (Advance Music).Scott Tucker (choral conductor)is director of choral music atCornell University where heconducts the Cornell UniversityChorus, Glee Club and WorldMusic Choir and teaches musictheory and conducting. Tuckerhas traveled to and studiedtraditional music of East and South Africa andleads workshops in Xhosa and Zulu song style. Hereceived an M.M. in choral conducting from theNew England Conservatory of Music and a B.M.in trumpet performance from the New EnglandConservatory. He is currently the American ChoralDirectors Association Eastern Division Repertoireand Standards Chair for Male Choirs and is therecipient of numerous awards, including the 2004Outstanding Advisor Award from Cornell StudentActivities, a Talbot Baker Award for excellencein teaching and a St. Botolph Award for notableartists in the Boston area. In 1980 Tucker wasnamed a Presser Scholar.Sophie Till (violin) holds anadvanced music degree from theRoyal College of Music in Londonand an M.M. from the Universityof Massachusetts (Amherst)where she studied underCharles Treger. She is persuing aPh.D. on the Beethoven ViolinSonatas at The University of Leeds (U.K.). Anactive freelance violinist throughout Europeand Eastern U.S., she formerly taught at bothEton College and the Royal College of Music,Junior Department. A recipient of the F. LammotBelin Arts Award, she recorded the completeBeethoven violin and piano sonatas. She serveson the music faculty of Marywood University,where she is the director of the string division.John Michael Vaida (violin)has concertized throughoutthe United States and Europeas soloist, recitalist, chambermusician, and orchestral player.He has performed in majorNathan had many wonderfulexperiences at PAI this pastsummer. The teachers andstudents were like a warmfamily and the daily life thereleft a deep impression. All theexperiences at PAI will influenceNathan’s life in the future.Parents of Nathan Xu16-year-old violinistBeijing, ChinaMy wife and I were veryimpressed by the performancelevel of the choirs andorchestras that we heard duringthe concert we attended at theconclusion of the first week ofthe summer. Each ensembleperformed a varied andchallenging program at a veryhigh level. I was struck byhow well the facultyinterspersed themselves withinthe ensemble but yet allowedthe students to gain valuableleadership experience.George F. EngelmannOrchestra DirectorJames E. 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