2010-2012

Stephanie Kawzenuk, MT-BC '11, BM (music therapy with music education certification)
Music Therapist
Stephanie was employed at Creekside School (Monroe BOCES 1) as a long-term substitute music therapist from January-June 2012. She is also a singer with Nik and the Nice Guys. She is now living in Miami, FL attending the University of Miami on a full graduate assistantship for a Masters in Music Therapy.

Kari Kohanski,  BM '11 (music education)
Music Teacher, Fairport
Kari is teaching 6th and 8th grade general music, K/1st general music, and team teaching 6th grade choir  at the Fairport School District.

Erin Smith,  BA '12 (music)
Musicology graduate student, University of Maryland

Ashley Villone,  BS '12 (music/business)
Music business graduate student, NYU

Elaine Vuong,  BM '12 (music therapy)
Music therapy graduate student, Florida State University

2006-2010

Clare Arezina, MT-BC,CCLS, BM '06 (music therapy)
Music Therapy graduate student, University of Kansas
Clare is pursuing a Master's Degree in Music Therapy at the University of Kansas, where she has accepted a position as a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

Brendan Ayers, BM '08 (music education)
Music Teacher, Wilson High School
Brian is teaching General Music at the Wilson High School Foundation Rochester, New York. He is also teaching a Music for Special Learners class with Genesee Community College.

Alexandra Barbato, BM (music education)
Flute instructor, Rochester Contemporary School of Music.

Jessica Best, BM '06 (vocal performance)
Performer, Santa Fe Opera
Jessica has just finished a 10 day stint in NYC with her coach Sherrill Milnes from Northwestern University. He has taken her under his wing and is exposing her to some of the top Opera coaches in the world. She will be off to Tampa in April with him again, doing his program, Voice Experience. It will be another 10 day period of time where she will be coaching and performing with various opera singers. The most exciting news is that Jessica has been contracted to Santa Fe Opera beginning in May. She will be participating in the young artist apprentice program and is cast as Marchelina, from the Marriage of Figaro, in this upcoming summer opera season. In June, she will be graduating from Northwestern in June with her Masters.

Last year Jessica was given a full scholarship from the Bel Canto Foundation of Chicago to attend V.O.I.C.E. Experience: Sherrill Milnes and Friends - this August in Disney World. This past February, she appeared as Hata in the opera, The Bartered Bride in Cahn Auditorium. This summer she has been accepted to the Santa Fe Opera program to cover Marcellina.
You can listen to some of her performances on YouTube: Non oiu mesta, Ave Maria

Nikki Bell, BM '07 (music education)
Music Teacher, Lancaster Central
Nikki is teaching General Music and Strings Grades 4-6 full time at William Street School (Lancaster Central Schools) and she is working on a master degree in international studies at St. John Fisher College, Rochester.

Tony Bisbano, BA '06
Composer, Nashville Symphony
Tony has created an orchestral arrangement of Believe from the movie Polar Express which was performed in November by the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Marvin Hamlisch has hired him to orchestrate a medley of songs from the Barbra Streisand movie "Yentl", for him to conduct with the Nashville Symphony later in April, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu1_3JL4wS0

Julia Broman, BA '09
Ethnomusicology graduate student, Eastman School of Music

Nicole Brooker, BM '06 (music education)
Music Teacher, Honeoye; graduate student, Nazareth 
Nicole was accepted into the master's degree program in music education at Nazareth College. She is teaching 5th grade band and lessons in the Honeoye Falls Central School District.

Adrian Catucci, BM '06 (music education),
Music Teacher, St. Monica Catholic School

Sarah Chasey, BM '09 (music performance)
Vocal Performance graduate student, Manhattan School of Music

Nick Cicero, BA '09 (music)
Advertising graduate student, Syracuse University

Danielle Conner, BM (music education)
Music Teacher - 4th-8th grade band, Keshequa Central School District

Sarah Decker, BM '06 (music education)
Teacher, DeSales High School
Sarah has been accepted into the master's degree program in music education at Nazareth College. She is teaching at the DeSales High School in Geneva New, York.

Bethany Donovan, BM (music education)
Music Teacher - 7th-12th grade general/vocal music, Dolgeville Central School

Jessica Edic, BM '08 (music education)
Music Teacher, Deerfield Elementary School
Jessica is teaching K-5 Vocal Music at Deerfield Elementary in Whitesboro. She is also enrolled in the Masters in Music Education degree from Boston University.

Marissa Emple, BM '07 (music therapy)
Music Therapist, Hebrew Home, Bronx, NY

Lindsey Everitt, BM '09 (music therapy)
Music Therapist, Heritage Christian Service
Lindsey provides in-home care and services for adults and children with developmental disabilities through Heritage Christian Service.

Christa Fortin, BM '09 (music education)
Music teacher, Canaserage Central School
Christa is the new band director at Canaseraga Central School, she will be responsible for 4-12 instrumental, 7-8 general, and marching band.

Nathan Frink, BA '09
Ethnomusicology doctoral student, University of Pittsburgh
Nathan received a full four-year fellowship from University of Pittsburgh to pursue a PhD in Ethnomusicology with a concentration in Jazz studies.

Elliot Kirby, BA '06
Audio and print artist, EM2 Advertising
Elliot has been hired as an audio and print production artist at EM2 Advertising in Rochester, New York. He is responsible for generating music and jingles for clients, recording and producing audio for TV, radio sports and designing print advertisements.

Leah Kirby, BM '08 (music therapy)
Creative Arts Therapy graduate student, Nazareth
Leah is attending the Creative Arts Therapy graduate program at Nazareth College. She is also working as a part-time as a graduate assistant in the Music Therapy Program at the Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong Memorial Hospital. Leah passed her Board Certification examination in 2009 and has a MT-BC.

Mary Holzhauer, BM '06 (piano performance)
Mary completed a master's degree in piano performance and organ at Ithaca College. She is currently freelancing in the Ithaca area.

Leticia Kalweit, BM '06 (piano performance)
Piano Instructor, Mary Anne Bruce Studio
Leticia is a piano instructor at Mary Anne Bruce Studio and the organist of First Baptist Church in Newark, New York.

Cassandra Kennedy, BM '06 (music therapy)
Graduate student, part-time music therapist
Cassandra was accepted into the master's program at Kardon Institute of Creative Arts Therapy in Pennsylvania. She is also working as a part-time music therapist.

Kathryn Lent, BM '06
Music History graduate student, Bowling Green State University

Matthew Locke, BM '08
Music teacher, Stanton Elementary, Washington D.C.
Matthew received the Outstanding General Music/Vocal Student Teacher Award, and found employment through the Gates Chili Central School District teaching General Music (K-5) and Chorus at Paul Road Elementary. He worked there from 2008-2010 as a long-term substitute, but recently was hired in Washington, DC teaching General Music (PreK-5) at DC Scholars Stanton Elementary, a turnaround school. Both the art and music programs are new this 2010-2011 school year, and the school is looking begin a chorus program.

Stephanie McKay, BM '08 (music education)
Graduate student, substitute teacher
Stephanie is a long term substitute teacher in the Rochester City School District teaching 4-6th grade band and instrumental lessons at school 1 and school 35. She is also working on the Masters of Music Education at Roberts Wesleyan College.

Bethany Miller, BM '06 (music therapy)
Music therapy intern, Bethany Children's Home, Pennsylvania

Jason Mincer, BM '06 (music education)
Music teacher, Gates Chili High School and Middle School

Aubri Ordway, BM '06 (music education)
K-12 Music Teacher, Belfast, NY

Scott Paeplow, BM '08 (music education)
Choral music teacher, Tonawanda, NY
Scott has found employment for the 2008-2009 academic year at the Cardinal O'Hara High School in Tonawanda, New York. It is a part time choral music position aimed at starting a new program.

Kim Potter Winden, BM '06 (music education)
Music teacher, Rochester City Schools
Kim is teaching Instrumental and Vocal General Grades 7-12 at the Wilson Foundation Academy, Rochester City School District.

Kyle Potter, BA
Developmental Psychology graduate student, Townson University

Ashley Poulin '06
Liberal sciences graduate student, SUNY Albany.

Melissa Reed, BM '02, MS '06
Music teacher and therapist, Hilton Central School
Melissa recently received the Outstanding Music Educators, Choral Music Award from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Reed is a music educator and music therapist in the Hilton Central School District and a music education lecture at Nazareth College.

Anne Rimbach, BA '09
Library Fellow, Philadelphia Orchestra
Anne is currently working for the Philadelphia Orchestra as a Library Fellow in the orchestra library. She is also attending Temple University for her M.M. in Music History.

Lindsay Rock, BM '06
Band Director, Goff Middle School
Lindsay is a 6th grade band director at Goff Middle School in East Greenbush Central School district. She is also starting her M.S. in Music Education at St. Rose in Albany.

Michael Roddy , BM '08 (performance)
Teacher, Ilion Central School
Michael teaches in the Ilion Central School District in Utica. He sang in the Mercury Opera Rochester's production of Tosca and La Traviata. In spring 2009, Michael took over a semester sabbatical conducting the Mohawk Valley Choral Society. He performed uilleann pipes on the world premier of a piece by composer Ann Reid on a concert with the Genesee Valley Orchestra.

Shelby Rosenblum, BM '06 (music therapy)
Music therapy intern, River Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, New Orleans

Lisa Salvaggio, BA '08 (music),
School counseling M.Ed. program, Suffolk University

Michael Sapienza, BM '06 (music education),
Teacher, East Irondequoit Middle School Band

Nicole Siniscarco, BM '06 (music education)
Music teacher, graduate student
Nicole has been accepted into the master's program in music education at SUNY Fredonia. She is now teaching at Holland Patent Middle School. She teaches Jazz Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, 4th and 5th grade band lessons and 5th grade band.

Megan Smith, BM '09 (music therapy),
Music therapy intern, Beth Israel Medical Center
Megan was awarded a prestigious music therapy internship at Beth Israel Medical Center and plans to travel to Kenya to implement Arts in Medicine programs at hospitals specializing in the treatment of children with AIDS.

Jennifer Stocki Johnson, BA '06,
Music Director, St. Maria Goretti Church in Laflin, PA

Heather Taylor, BM '08 (music education)
Music teacher, Greece Central Schools
Heather received the 2008 Outstanding Instrumental Student Teaching Award. She is teaching at Greece Athena High School.

Eric Traugott, MM '07 BM '05 (music education)
Music teacher, Rochester City Schools
Eric received the 2007-2008 Rochester Teacher of the Year.  He is teaching in the Rochester City School District.

Deanna Spiotta, BA ' 09
Deanna has been accepted in the inaugural class at Liverpool Hope University in the UK to pursue the new Masters of Arts in The Beatles and Popular Music and Society.

Ryan Thomas, BM '06 (music education)
Music teacher, LeRoy High School

Jaclyn Urban
Performer, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Jaclyn will be undertaking the role of Francisca in a performance featuring songs from West Side Story, with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra on October 20, 2007.

Joy Walcek, BM '06 (music therapy)
Music therapist, Upstate Music Therapy Center

Kevin Weber, BM '07 (music education)
Music teacher, Hilton Central School District
Kevin was accepted into the masters degree program in music education at Nazareth College. He is currently teaching in the Hilton Central School District as the middle school brass instructor, and high school brass ensemble director. Next fall he will be the 4-8 instrumental band director in the Hornell City School District. He will also returning for his 3rd season with the Hochstein Music Educators Wind Ensemble.

Jesse Whitney
Music theory graduate student, University of Massachusetts
Jesse has been awarded a Teaching Assistantship at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and will be attending there in the fall for work on my Masters of Music in Music Theory.

Kyle Yacobucci, BM '09 (music performance)
Oboe Performance graduate student, Bowling Green State University

2000-2005

Chris Edelman, BM '04 (music education)
English Teacher, Japan

Jane Morale,  MS '02 (music education)
Orchestra Director, Webster Spry Middle School
Jane recently received the Outstanding Music Educators, Instrumental Music–Strings Award from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Morale is the orchestra director at Webster Spry Middle School and currently serves as the elementary all-county orchestra coordinator for Monroe County.

Becky Farrell, BM' 03
Ethnomusicology graduate student, Ireland
Becky has published a new book entitled "Across the Water: Teaching Irish Music and Dance at Home and Abroad", based upon her work towards her Masters Degree in Ethnomusicology at the University of Limerick in Limerick, Ireland.

Michael Shamrock, BM '05 (music education),
Music teacher, Lancaster School District
Michael is teaching vocal/general music k-3 in the Lancaster School District. He is also the music director for The Church at Shawnee Landing, in Wheatfield, NY. He is working on his master's in music education at the University at Buffalo.

Amanda Payne-Shamrock, BM '05 (music education)
Music teacher, Lockport, NY
Amanda is teaching vocal/general music k-3 in the Lancaster School District. She is also the choral director for Emmanuel United Methodist Church in Lockport, NY. She is working on her master's in music education at the University at Buffalo.

Jeff Hoffman, BM '05 (music education)
Music Teacher, Eastridge High School

Melissa Cook, BM '05 (music therapy)
Music Therapist, Saint Barnabas Medical Center
Melissa has completed her Master of Science in Music Therapy at SUNY New Paltz. She is a Board Certified Music Therapist working full time in the pediatric unit at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey.

Kattie Cordeiro, BM '05 (music therapy)
Mental Health Counseling graduate student, University of Rochester
Kattie has successfully completed her Board Certification for Music Therapists. Currently she is enrolled at the University of Rochester in their Master's in Mental Health Counseling Program.

Jennifer Forster, BM '05 (music therapy), MT-BC
Music Therapist, Louisville, Kentucky

1943-1999

Elizabeth McAnally, BS '90 (music education)
Elizabeth will be sharing her experiences teaching middle school general music at the MENC/Rowman meeting. Littlefield will be publishing her book, "Middle School General Music: The Best Part of Your Day." and it will be available in December, 2009. Ms. McAnally is teaching at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Philadelphia.

Michael Park, BS '90
Actor
Micheal earned his second Best Actor Emmy in a role for his work as character Detective Jack Snyder on CBS's daytime drama As the World Turns. Park, who joined the cast of the soap in 1997, is currently starring with Daniel Radcliffe in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying.  

Maria Russo, dramatic soprano of international renown, sang all the Brunnhildes in the history-making, four-year project culminating this spring in the very first "Ring of the Nibelungen" ever produced in Brazil. It took place in the famous theater in Manaus, Teatro Amazonas which garnered a large international audience and world-wide press in the exotic location.

The conductor, Luis Mahhiero, was the driving force behind producing the "Ring, beginning with "Die Walkure" in 2002, "Siegfried" in 2003, "Gotterdammerung" in 2004 and all four of the operas this year. The direction was done by British team of director, Aidan Lang, and and set/costume designer, Ashley Martin-Davis.

Most of the singers were Brazilian but some exceptions, aside from Brunnhilde of Maria Russo, were the Canadian "Siegfried," Alan Woodrow, and the American bass, Stephen Bronk as "Fasolt," "Hunding," and "Hagen." Maria Russo will continue to sing Brunnhilde as the production moves to Sao Paulo over the next four years.

Congratulations to Michelle Murphy, BME 96 who was recently named to a position as visiting professor at Columbus State University in Georgia where she will teach studio voice, diction, and vocal pedagogy.

Entertainer Christopher Johnson, BM' 94 recently accepted a contract with Sight and Sound Theatre in Lancaster, PA for the upcoming world premier musical "Psalms of David" running June 16 through December 30, 2006. He also has launched a new website where you can view his credentials, see pictures, and view some clips of his performances. Recently he spent a year literally singing all over the world as the lead male vocalist aboard both the Oceania Regatta and Radisson Seven Seas Voyager.

A lover of Opera, Christopher has performed extensively with Rochester Opera and New Jersey Opera in productions of "Pagliacci", "Cavaleria Rusticana", "Rigoletto", "Tosca", and "Il Trovatore". He has performed leading roles in "The Marriage of Figaro", "The Telephone", "The Mikado", "Pygmalion", "Gypsy", "Kiss Me Kate", "The Stonewater Rapture", "The Spoonriver Anthology", and "Little Red Riding Hood". For many summers, he was the baritone soloist at the "Camp-of-the-Woods" summer resort in upstate NY.

Christopher is also grateful for the opportunity he had to sing at Carnegie Hall in a performance of Mozart's "Requiem". Before deciding to give his full attention to performing, he was the Upper School Choral Director and Dean of Students for the prestigious Warldaw-Hartridge School in New Jersey where he developed an award winning choir and was musical director for "The Fantastics", "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown", and "Annie".

Jack Allocco,  '72, received another Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series (The Bold and the Beautiful), making for a career total of six Emmys. Allocco is a composer, conductor, music producer, and director whose career spans television, film, and theater. 

Geraldine Elliott, BM, '43, after more than 60 years attending Nazareth, "Jerry" was invited by the Nazareth College Percussion studies director, Kristen Shiner McGuire, to play with her current students in 2009. You can find out more by visiting: http://www.naz.edu/spotlights/beat-goes-on