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2011 Faculty continued22concert halls such as Carnegie and Merkinhalls, the Stone and Steinway Hall. Formerly amember of the Eastman Chamber Music Society,the Alpha Omega Ensemble, and Tanguerosde Ley, he has taken part in the AIMS festivalin Graz Austria, the Ash Lawn Opera Festival,Sunflower Music Festival, and the RecontresMusicales Internationales des Graves (France).Concertmaster for the One World Symphonyand the Pittsburgh Opera Center Orchestra, hehas also performed with the Pittsburgh OperaOrchestra, Harrisburg Symphony, CharlestonSymphony, Wheeling Symphony, and the NewWest Symphony. Vaida is currently artist-inresidenceat Wyoming Seminary and is adjunctprofessor of violin at Misericordia University. Healso teaches at the Hamilton Madison Housein Manhattan. He holds a B.M. from DuquesneUniversity and a M.M. in performance from theEastman School of Music.John Vaida (choral conductor)is chairman of the fine andperforming arts departmentat Wyoming Seminary wherehe directs the 100-voicechorale and the award-winning28-voice Madrigal Singers.He is the U.S. representativeof the International Choral Network and aninternationally-known guest conductor andstudio teacher. He also is a past president ofthe Pennsylvania Music Educator’s Association.Vaida currently serves on the voice faculty ofMarywood University.Dr. Christopher Vaneman(flute) received his D.M.A. fromYale University, where he studiedwith Ransom Wilson. He holdsM.M. and M.M..A. degrees fromYale as well as an Honors B.M.from the Eastman School wherehe studied with Bonita Boyd. Heattended the Salzburg Mozarteum and Belgium’sConservatoire Royal, where he studied under agrant from the Belgian American EducationalFoundation. He has studied contemporaryflute techniques with Robert Dick in NewYork and Baroque performance practice andornamentation with Barthold Kuijken in Belgium.He is flutist of the award-winning Converse-basedchamber group Ensemble Radieuse. Formerly theprincipal flutist of the Reigate Festival Orchestrain England, Vaneman now serves as the presidentof the South Carolina Flute Society.Dr. Kelly McElrath Vaneman(oboe) is associate professor ofoboe and musicology and chairof the Department of Musicologyand Composition at the CarrollMcDaniel Petrie School of Musicof Converse College. She holdsD.M.A., M.M..A. and M.M. degreesfrom Yale University, where she was teachingassistant to Ronald Roseman. She received herB.M. summa cum laude from Baylor University,where she studied with Doris DeLoach. She studiedmodern and Baroque oboe with Paul Dombrechtat the Koninklijk Konservatorium Brussel undera grant from the Belgian American EducationalFoundation. As oboist of the oboe/flute/piano trioEnsemble Radieuse, she recorded the CD Inboxand was a prize-winner in the 2006 NationalFlute Society Chamber Music Competition and hasperformed at conferences of the College MusicSociety, the International Double Reed Society, theSoutheastern Composers Forum and the SouthCarolina MTNA. She was founder and director ofChamber Music in the Chapel in New York City’sSt. Patrick’s Cathedral. Vaneman has been active inthe new music scene and has over thirty premieresto her credit; she has appeared as a soloist withorchestras in Guatemala, Texas and South Carolinaand has played as a member of the Central Texas,Waco, Asheville, Spartanburg and New HavenSymphony Orchestras, the National OrchestralInstitute, the American Wind Symphony and theReigate Festival Orchestra of Surrey, England.Kyle Vock (jazz bass), holds aB.S. in jazz studies from SUNYNew Paltz where he studied jazzbass with John Menegon. Heholds a master’s degree in jazzperformance from the EastmanSchool of Music where hestudied with Jeffrey Campbell.As president of the New Paltz Jazz Societyfrom 2005 until 2008, Vock was successfulin organizing and planning workshops andperformances by musicians like Rufus Reid, KarlBerger, and Jack Dejohnette. He has performedregularly throughout the Hudson Valley with adance and music revue entitled “A Perfect Gift:All that is Jazz” and has recorded a CD with thegroup in 2008. Vock is currently a freelancemusician and teacher in Rochester, N.Y.Jared Ziegler (saxophone) is anactive teacher, performer andclinician in the Midwest. He holdsdegrees from the Universityof Wisconsin-Eau Claire andNorthwestern University, wherehe studied with FrederickHemke. As a performer, Zieglerhas appeared with groups such as the MinnesotaOpera Orchestra and Kenosha Symphonyand has premiered pieces by Elliot Sharp andMichael Cunningham (debuted at the 13th WorldSaxophone Congress). As a member of theHyacinth Saxophone Quartet, he performed atfinal round competitions of both the ChesapeakeBay Chamber Music Competition and ColemanChamber Ensemble Competition. He has alsobeen involved in recording projects with theNorthwestern Wind Ensemble, Contemporaries(2004) and the University of Wisconsin-EauClaire Jazz Ensemble’s Grammy nominatedalbum, Things to Come (2001).Anneka Zuehlke (Frenchhorn) was appointed asPrincipal Horn of the GreenvilleSymphony Orchestra in 2004and recently, Principal Horn ofthe Spartanburg Philharmonic.Currently an Adjunct HornInstructor at Converse CollegePetrie School of Music, she has attended festivalssuch as Tanglewood, Spoleto, Norfolk, Sarasota,Aspen and Verbier Academy Festival with CurtisOrchestra. Zuehlke earned her B.M. from theCurtis Institute of Music and her M.M. at the YaleSchool of Music where she was awarded the JohnSwallow Prize for outstanding brass performance.PAI 2011 Counselors &Resident ArtistsNameUniversity, YearRachel Ackerman Penn State, ‘12Yoo-Jin Choe Seoul National University, ‘06Yale School of Music, M.M., ‘09stony Brook University, D.M.A., ‘13Jordan Dale Columbus State University (GA)schwob School of Music, ‘13Rachel Denlinger University Cincinnati ‘14Joseph Ellickson University of Iowa, ’09Hannah Frantz Gettysburg University, ’13Nicole Hassell Montclair State University, ‘09Bowling Green State University, MM, ‘12Elise Henkelman Carnegie Mellon, ‘12Chloe Kalna Pratt Institute, ‘12Nathan Raderman New England Conservatory, ‘13Ashley Salinas Sam Houston State University, ‘09university of North Texas, M.M., ‘11Jason Stein Boston University, ‘07northwestern University, M.M., ‘08Kyle Vock SUNY at New Paltz, ‘08eastman School of Music, M.M., ‘10Shuhui Zhou Oberlin Conservatory of Music, ‘13PAI 2011 Professional InternsMichael Chittenden McDaniel College, ‘08Allison Considine Pace University, ‘14Kerri Height Elizabethtown College, ‘14Jillian Mirenzi Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, ‘14Josephine Siu London College of Fashion, ‘09syracuse University, MFA, ‘10Sarah Steeves Carroll McDaniel Petrie School of MusicConverse College, ‘12PAI 2011 Student InternsLauren Aloia Temple University,esther Boyer College of Music, ‘15Aimee Cho University of North Texas, ‘15Cristian Cantu Columbus State University (GA),schwob School of Music, ‘15Miles Orfanella West Chester State University, ‘15Sophie Paridon Penn State University, ‘15Christa Schmitsch Penn State University, ‘15Maggie Sullivan Holy Redeemer High School, ‘12