Faculty & Staff

Eliko Akahori

B.M., Kunitachi College of Music (Japan); M.M., D.M.A., New England Conservatory of Music

Pianist, teacher, and performer of piano and chamber music.

Tamar Barzel

B.M., Oberlin Conservatory of Music; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan

Ethnomusicologist specializing in the music of the United States, with a focus on jazz.

Laura Bossert-King

B.M., M.M., Eastman School of Music

Director, LyricaFest Music Festival; Quartet Program, Longy School; visiting faculty, Eastman School; silver medalist, Henryk Szeryng Prize.

Martin Alan Brody

B.A., Amherst College; M.M., D.M.A., Yale University School of Music

Composer of concert music; historian of early modern music, especially music during the Cold War in relation to other arts.

James David Christie

B.A., Oberlin College; M.M.A., New England Conservatory of Music

College organist and organ teacher; oversees the care of all the pipe organs on campus.

David Collins

B.M., Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo); M.M., University of Wisconsin (Madison); Ph.D., New England Conservatory of Music

Robert F. Couture

B.M., New England Conservatory of Music; M.A., University of Massachusetts (Boston)

Marion Dry

A.B., Harvard University; M.M., Northwestern University

Contralto who loves opera and songs; fascinated by singing. Hopes to inspire student musicians. Enjoys to teach, learn, and grow.

Claire Fontijn

B.A., Oberlin College; Certificate, The Royal Conservatory of The Hague; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University

Interests include early music in general, Western Europe 1000-1750, music composed by women such as Fanny Hensel and St. Hildegard.

Lisa Graham

B.A., Sonoma State College; M.M., D.M.A., University of Southern California

Conductor of Choral Program, including Choir, Chamber Singers, and Choral Scholars.

David Harris

B.M., New England Conservatory of Music

Trombonist, composer, arranger; also plays tuba, bass trombone, and piano; specializing in improvising and the music of Eastern Europe.

Mark S. Henry

B.M., Berklee College of Music; M.M., University of Massachusetts (Lowell)

Performer with jazz groups, classical and theatre orchestras; instructor of beginners to advanced in doublebass and electric bass.

Russell Hoffmann

B.M., University of Texas at Arlington; M.Ed., Cambridge College

Laura Jeppesen

B.A., Wheaton College; M.M., Yale University

Performer of early music, in repertoire from the Middle Ages to the 19th century; player of rebec, vielle, viola, and gamba.

Jenny Olivia Johnson

B.A., Barnard College; M.M., Manhattan School of Music; Ph.D., New York University

Composer of amplified opera, scholar of music, trauma, and synaesthesia.

Gabriel Langfur

M.M., New England Conservatory; B.M., Oberlin Conservatory; B.A., Oberlin College

Bass trombonist in the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Vermont Symphony Orchestras; performs frequently with the Boston Symphony and Pops, the Boston Ballet Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Opera Boston, and in orchestras and theaters throughout New England and beyond.

Lance Alexander Martin

Flute and Theory, Carnegie Mellon University; B.M. Berklee College of Music

Andrea Matthews

A.B., Princeton University

Soprano (opera/oratorio/concert), voice teacher, Alexander Technique teacher.

Cercie Miller

Director, Wellesley BlueJazz

Jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. Teacher of jazz improvisation, saxophone and ensemble technique, jazz theory and history of jazz.

David Russell

B.M., Eastman School; M.M., University of Akron; D.M.A., SUNY (Stony Brook)

Lois Shapiro

B.Mus., Peabody Institute of Music; M.Mus., Yale University School of Music; D.Mus., Indiana University School of Music (Bloomington)

Founding member of the Triple Helix Piano Trio

Jane E. Starkman

B.M., M.M., New England Conservatory of Music

Professor of Music

Olga Talroze

B.M., M.M, San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Antoine van Dongen

B.M. and M.Mus., Sweelinck Conservatory of Music Amsterdam

Performer and instructor of violin in Europe and the United States.

Tom Zajac

B.A., Northern Illinois University; M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College

Specialist in medieval and Renaissance music performance practice. Performs on a large number of wind and percussion instruments.