Rita Corey, Piano
An active teacher, performer and choir conductor, pianist Rita Corey received her BA from the University of Rochester. Ms. Corey currently serves as the Organist/Director of the Junior and Senior Choirs at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Foxboro, and is on the faculty at All Newton Music School as well as the Dana Hall School of Music.

Esther deGrunigen, Violin
A graduate of Vassar College and Boston University, Esther has been an active teacher and freelance musician in the New England area for over 20 years. Her appointments have included the Longy School of Music, the Rivers School of Music, and Kinhaven Music Camp. She has served on the string faculty of the Dana Hall School of Music since 1990.

Mike DiBari, Guitar
Mike DiBari’s musical education started in New York City at the Manhattan School of Music where he studied classical guitar with Nicholas Goluses and the great Mme Segovia. In 1994 Mr. DiBari earned a Bachelor degree from the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he further honed his skills as a guitarist learning from jazz masters Jon Damian, Jim Kelly and Jon Finn. Mr. DiBari has also studied jazz guitar with Harry Leahy (who won a Grammy for his work with Phil Woods), and the legendary Pat Martino. In 1996, he formed the Mike DiBari Swingtet and the following year released his first CD Jumpin' The Blues on his own Palomino Records label. The CD received favorable reviews, was picked up by Hepcat Records and was distributed worldwide. In an effort to shine a brighter spotlight on his guitar playing and compositional skills, he formed the Mike DiBari Trio which has performed, recorded and toured throughout New England.

Daniel Doña, Violin/Viola
Dr. Doña teaches throughout Boston and has served on the faculty at the Dana Hall School of Music since 2007. Dr. Doña received his BA in Philosophy from the University of Chicago where he was awarded the inaugural David Fulton Award, and received his Master's in Viola Performance from the University of Oklahoma where he studied with Matthew Dane (viola) and Felicia Moye (violin). At Boston University he received his Performance Diploma and DMA and was a two-time recipient of the String Department Award. Dr. Doña is a co-founder of the Arneis Quartet and Ensemble and an active soloist and chamber musician whose performances have been broadcast on CBC Radio 2 and WCLV. He is currently assistant principal viola of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra and plays with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra. An active pedagogue, he has presented masterclasses at the University of Connecticut, Northwestern University Music Academy and Miami University.

Natalie Erlich, Piano
After receiving her early training at Juilliard Pre-College, Ms. Erlich received her Bachelor and Master's degrees in Piano Performance from New England Conservatory. While there she was the winner of the 2005 Borromeo Quartet Guest Artist Award, the 2006 Commencement Concerto Competition and the 2006-2007 Chamber Music Honors Auditions. In high school Ms. Erlich co-founded the Hunter Piano Trio; a winner of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Young Musicians Competition in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Ms. Erlich has performed at Jordan Hall in Boston, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill Hall, the Juilliard Theater, the 92nd Street Y in New York and in Europe. Ms. Erlich has been featured four times on the Young Artists Showcase on WQXR, New York's classical radio station, and has worked with prominent living composers such as Leon Kirchner, Malcolm Peyton and Michael Gandolfi.

Natalie Favaloro, Violin
Originally from Sydney, Australia, Natalie Favaloro made her solo debut at the age of four after only one year of study. She has performed around the world as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician in places such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, the United States, South America, New Caledonia and France. Ms. Favaloro has also participated in several international festivals in Hawaii, Vienna and Amberg Spoleto in Charleston, South Carolina. A graduate of New England Conservatory’s Master's and Graduate Diploma programs, Natalie now lives, teaches and performs in Boston and is a member of the Albany Symphony Orchestra in New York as well as the Associate Concertmaster of the Cape Cod Symphony and Concertmaster of the Neponset Valley Philharmonic. Ms. Favaloro makes guest performances with orchestras throughout the Boston area, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and in her hometown with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra during the summer.

Susanne Friedrich, Cello
Born in Vienna, Austria, Ms. Friedrich studied cello at the Vienna Conservatory and baroque cello at the Tirol State Conservatory in Innsbruck. Her private teachers included Josef Luitz and Max Engel as well as masterclasses with Misha Maisky. A frequent soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Friedrich has performed with both modern and baroque/classical orchestras throughout Austria, Europe and Asia. Ms. Friedrich also worked as a freelance cellist and teacher at the Vienna Conservatory Prep School. She performs regularly with ensembles throughout New England including the Nashua Symphony, Springfield Symphony and Masterworks Chorale, and serves on the faculties of New England Conservatory Preparatory Division, the Dana Hall School of Music, St. Mark’s School and the Rivers School Conservatory.

Sarah Henderson-Bailes, Voice
Sarah received her undergraduate degree in Voice Performance from Westminster Choir College, and her Master's in Vocal Pegagogy from NEC. A winner of the 2004 NATS competition (National Association of Teacher Singing), Sarah has performed several leads in various opera productions in New Jersey and Boston, and in choral works with the New York Philharmonic.

Fumei Huang, Voice/Piano
A native of Taiwan, Dr. Huang received her undergraduate diploma from Fu-Jen University in voice and piano performance and her Master's and Doctoral degrees from Boston University in vocal performance. She has performed as a soloist in the United States and Asia and has served on several music school faculties around New England, including the Dana Hall School of Music, the Suzuki School of Newton and the Yamaha Music Institute.

Dave Jamrog, Percussion
A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Dave Jamrog is a drummer, teacher and recording engineer in the New England area. Mr. Jamrog currently serves as the Percussion Coordinator at the Boston Arts Academy and has performed throughout the United States and Europe with artists such as Dave Coffin, Toni Lynn Washington, Mighty Sam McLane and Susan Werner. As a recording engineer, he is owner and operator of the SNAPPYTRACKS recording studio in Jamaica Plain.

Lilly Kinas, Voice
A graduate of the Hartt College of Music, Lilly Kinas has an extensive performing and teaching career throughout New England. Her faculty appointments include the Dana Hall School of Music, Anna Maria College, the Charles River School and the Meadowbrook School. Ms. Kinas also maintains a private teaching studio in Wayland. As a musical theater professional, she has served as Music Director for productions such as Pippin, Fiddler on the Roof, Baby, Funny Girl and Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd. Lilly has performed in recitals throughout New England and Israel, and can be heard on the CD Sleep My Child, a collection of Jewish Lullabies.

Eric Lane, Jazz Piano
After being introduced to jazz at age nine, Mr. Lane was performing professionally in clubs in his home state of Colorado by the time he was 12. He received a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance from New England Conservatory and joined the Dana Hall School of Music in 2008. Mr. Lane performs extensively in the New England area in the bands “The Superpowers” and “Out to Lunch,” and has toured the United States and Canada several times and is featured both as a composer and as a performer on the Superpowers’s record entitled Boston Afrobeat Presents: The Superpowers. He can also be heard on Excuse Me While I Do the Boogaloo by "Out to Lunch."

Robert Lasher, Guitar
Robert Lasher studied guitar with Guy Simeone and Hopkinson Smith at The Longy School of Music. Robert also studied solfege with Judy Ross and counterpoint with Victoria Glazer. He received a MM from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he majored in guitar performance and studied with David Leisner and Robert Sullivan. Mr. Lasher also studied Indian Modal Improvisation with Abby Rabinowitz. As well as teaching guitar at the Dana Hall School of Music, Mr. Lasher teaches at The Rivers School Conservatory where he serves as Chair of the guitar department. He performs solo recitals, which include original compositions, as well as collaborations with flute, violin, oboe, voice and piano. Several of his guitar compositions have been premiered by his students. He released Weight of Time, an album of original music for guitar and is currently releasing a second recording, Horizons, an album of original compositions for guitars and percussion. As well as classical guitar, he enjoys teaching and playing traditional and popular music.

Ian Lindsey, Piano
Ian Lindsey has been on the faculty of the Dana Hall School of Music since 2000. After graduating from the Walnut Hill School of the Performing Arts, Ian Lindsey continued his studies with Randall Hodgkinson at The New England Conservatory where he received both his undergraduate and Master degrees. He has performed regularly throughout New England and the northeast, with virtuoso repertoire such as the complete sets of etudes by Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninov; Goyescas by Granados, and Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies, which is he currently recording. Mr. Lindsey has won the Arlington Symphony Orchestra competition and was a recipient of the St. Botolph award for promising musicians.

Angela Longo, Flute
Angela Longo holds a Bachelor in performance from The Boston Conservatory of Music, and a Master’s degree in performance from The New England Conservatory of Music. A Young Artist Competition winner, she has been a soloist with both the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops. Angela currently freelances in the Boston and Worcester areas and is an active music educator, having served as an adjudicator with the Massachusetts Music Educators Association, and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Pappoutsakis Flute Competition. She is a pre-school music instructor in Marlboro; a flute teacher for the Wellesley Public Schools; and a faculty member of the Dana Hall School of Music, where she has taught and served as the director of flute ensembles for 19 years.

Rane Moore, Clarinet/Saxophone
A graduate of Indiana University, the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and the University of California at Berkeley, Rane Moore has given numerous premieres of new works and appeared with groups such as Boston Musica Viva, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Firebired Ensemble, Raduis Ensemble, Ludovico Ensemble, Hyperion Ensemble, and is a member of the Callithumpian Consort and the Talea Ensemble. As an orchestral musician she has performed with the Lexington Symphony, Owensboro Symphony in Kentucky, the Columbus Symphony, Indiana Philharmonic and the New England Philharmonic. Ms. Moore is a faculty member of the Dana Hall School of Music, teaches for the Weston Public Schools, and serves as a chamber music coach at Harvard University's Mather House.

Kanako Nishikawa, Piano
A native of Japan, Ms. Nishikawa received her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Toho-Gakuen School of Music, her Master’s degree with Honors from the New England Conservatory of Music and an Artist Diploma in Piano Performance and Chamber Music from the Longy School of Music. Ms. Nishikawa has attended the Aspen Festival and is a Fellow at the International Musical Arts Institute in Maine. An active soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, she has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Israel, Malaysia and Japan with prestigious artists such as members of the Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Dallas Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra. She has studied with Richard Goode, Lucas Foss, Menahem Pressler, Beveridge Webster, Anton Kuerti, Gabriel Chodos, Eda Mazo-Shlyam, Tong-Il Han, Hiroko Edo and Sachiko Fukuoka, both privately and in masterclasses.

Kirsi Perttulli, Violin
Ms. Perttulli received her BM in Violin Performance from the University of Michigan, and her Master’s in Violin Performance (with High Distinction) from Indiana University, where she also minored in Education. A native of Finland, she has taught at the Pori City and Kankaanpaa Music Schools, performed with the Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra and served as Principal 2^nd Violin of the Pori Symphony. Her performance career includes appearances throughout the United States and Europe as a soloist and as a member of the Kalliope Piano Trio. Ms. Pertulli currently holds teaching positions at the Longy School of Music, where she conducts beginning and intermediate String Ensembles, Boston College and the Dana Hall School of Music.

Linda Poland, Clarinet
Linda Poland received degrees in clarinet performance from the New England Conservatory of Music (MM) and the University of Maryland (BM), where her principal teachers were David Weber, Peter Hadcock and William Wrzesien. Ms. Poland performs regularly as Principal Clarinet with Kammerwerke and Second/E-Flat Clarinet with the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. She also performed as Second/E-Flat Clarinet of the Albany (NY) Symphony Orchestra for thirteen seasons, and with the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Plymouth Philharmonic, Portland Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic and Boston Lyric Opera. She currently serves on the faculties of the Dana Hall School of Music, Milton and Newton Public Schools and Dedham Country Day School.

Ana Sorina Popa, Piano
An active soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, Ana Popa received her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from New England Conservatory and her Master’s of Music from Boston University, where she is working toward her Doctoral degree. Ms. Popa performs regularly throughout the United States and Europe, and is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Sunday at Three Concert Series at First Parish Church in Dorchester. Her principal teachers include Veronica Jochum, Tong Il Han, Randall Hodgkinson, and Burton Hatheway. Her teaching positions have included appointments at the Dana Hall School of Music, the Brookline Music School and Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.

Peter Solomon, French Horn
Peter Solomon holds a BM from the New England Conservatory of Music and a BA from Tufts University.With extensive performance experience around the world, Mr. Solomon is a regular freelancer throughout the Northeast, having appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Albany Symphony and the Rhode Island Philharmonic among others. He currently serves as Principal Horn of the New Bedford Symphony, and is the former Principal Horn of the Atlantic Symphony. Mr. Solomon has also performed in Europe, substituting with the Hamburg Kamerata, with members of the Hamburger Symphoniker, and at Disney’s “The Lion King” in Hamburg, Germany. As a chamber musician and soloist, he has been featured on New York’s WQXR-FM and Boston’s WGBH-FM. He has also performed with such noted hornists as Marie-Luise Neunekker, Christian Lampert, and Raimund Zell.

Wendy Vignaux, Flute
A graduate of The Boston Conservatory, flutist Wendy Vignaux has an active freelancing and teaching career in and around Boston. She has performed with such groups as the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston, the Wellesley Symphony and Kammerwerke, and has also presented solo and chamber music recitals with the ensemble Trio Con Brio. Ms. Vignaux's teachers included Leone Buyse, Lois Schaefer and Julius Baker. She serves on the faculties of the Dana Hall School of Music and the Wellesley Public Schools extension division.

Laura Wilkins, Flute
A graduate of The Boston Conservatory, Laura Wilkins has been teaching flute in the Boston area for over 25 years. She is currently on the faculty of the Dana Hall School of Music, and also teaches at the Needham and Hopkinton public schools, as well as from her home studio. Also an active performer, Ms. Wilkins plays flute and piccolo with the New Philharmonia Orchestra and with the chamber ensemble Trio Con Brio. Ms. Wilkins studied flute with James Pappoutsakis and Phillip Kaplan, formerly of the BSO. She has also been a participant in masterclasses with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Louis Moyse and Gary Schocker.

Jan Zimmerman, Voice/Piano
Mezzo-soprano Jan Zimmerman has most recently appeared on stage in Perigueux, France as the title role in Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène. In addition to the standard repertoire, she has premiered works of contemporary composers, most recently Jonathan Blumhofer’s To Anacreon in Heaven. Ms. Zimmerman, a native of Panama City, Florida, is also an accomplished cellist and pianist. She graduated with her Master of Music Degree in Voice Performance from The Boston Conservatory in 2006 and her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music from Palm Beach Atlantic University in 2004. In addition to an active performing career and teaching at Dana Hall School of Music, Ms. Zimmerman teaches private voice and piano at Riverside Theatre Works and Arlington High School.