John P. Anthony

Professor of Music, Chair of the Music Department, College Organist

John Anthony is the college organist. Anthony's courses include Making Music at the Keyboard, Basic Keyboard Skills, Seminar in Music History, and History of Western Music.

Theodore Arm

Adjunct Professor of Music, Violin

Theodore "Teddy" Arm has delighted audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia with his artistry. He has appeared as soloist, recitalist and guest artist with such well-known organizations as The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Group for Contemporary Music, New York's Festival Chamber Players and the Boston Chamber Music Society.

Thomas Brown

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, trumpet

Thomas Brown was born and raised in Sparta, Michigan and started playing the trumpet at the age of 12. He joined the Connecticut College faculty in 2014 as an instructor of trumpet.

Gary A. Buttery

Adjunct Associate Professor of Music, Director of Bands and Jazz Ensembles, Tuba and Euphonium Instructor

From his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, Gary attended the University of Kansas and the University of Northern Colorado where he received his Bachelor and two masterss degrees in tuba and music theory and composition. An active performer, conductor, educator, and composer, he is published by Cimarron Music and Theodore Presser.

John Clark

Adjunct Associate Professor of Music

John Clark has been a visiting assistant professor since 2004 working with the jazz band and teaching American Music, the History of Jazz and the History of Western Music, a first-year seminar dealing with jazz on film, as well as various music theory and Introduction to Music courses.

Christine Coyle

Adjunct Professor of Music

A native of New York, currently living in Essex, Connecticut, cellist Christine Coyle is a respected performer and experienced teacher of cello.

Mathias Elmer

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Orchestral Activities

Ian Frenkel

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music

Ian (Yahn) Frenkel, an expatriate of the former Soviet Union, is active as an arranger, conductor, composer, educator, and pianist in the New England area, and currently holds the position of the Director of Cadet Instrumental Music and Bands at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.

Patricia L. Harper

Adjunct Professor of Music

Patricia Harper, flutist, enjoys a career as performer, educator, and scholar. On the faculty at Connecticut College since 1975, she directed a "Back to Bach" series for ten years, a "Women in Music" for six years, and is a founding member of the Connecticut College Woodwind Quintet.

Maksim Ivanov Zhdanovskikh

Adjunct Associate Professor of Music

Baritone Maksim Ivanov Zhdanovskikh has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Providence, Mississippi Opera, Opera of New Jersey, Opera Theater of Connecticut, Salt Marsh Opera of Rhode Island, Connecticut Lyric Opera, Ash-Lawn Festival, Sanibel Music Festival, Music Academy of the West and others.

Peter Jarvis

Adjunct Associate Professor of Music

Peter Jarvis (b. 1959, Hackensack, New Jersey) is a percussionist, drummer, conductor, composer, music copyist, print music editor and college professor. He is an Associate Director of the Composers Concordance and serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Mark McCormick

Adjunct Associate Professor of Music

Mark McCormick has performed in a wide variety of musical genres throughout the United States, Canada, and Japan. He has been a member of the United States Coast Guard Band since 1996, and with that organization has performed for three presidents, numerous foreign heads of state, and other high level dignitaries, as well as numerous tours across the United States and Far East.

James McNeish

Adjunct Associate Professor of Music, Classical Guitar Performance, Acoustical recording engineer

Jim McNeish teaches courses in solo classical guitar performance, Guitar Ensemble/Chamber Music, and Acoustics for Musicians. He also runs the College's Elizabeth Gilbert Fortune Recording Studio (a multi-room facility incorporating Fortune Hall, Evans Hall, Oliva Hall, a soundproof isolation booth and Harkness Chapel) and assists Professor Arthur Kreiger with electronic music and computer music courses in the Cummings Electronic and Digital Sound Studios. Professor McNeish holds a Master of Music degree in Applied Classical Guitar Performance from the Yale University School of Music, New Haven, Conn. He studied classical guitar with Benjamin Verdery and performed in master classes with Eliot Fiske, David Leisner, Jaap Schroeder, Ricardo Isniola, Michael Newman, Seymore Bernstein, and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. He also studied computer music programming with Jonathan Berger, and arranging with Willie Ruff. While earning a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Acoustics and Music from the College of Engineering, University of Hartford, Hartford, Conn., he studied acoustics with Robert Celmer and Craig Stalk and audio recording/engineering with David Budries. Earning a Bachelor of Music in Applied Classical Guitar. Hartt School of Music, Hartford, CT, he studied classical guitar with Oscar Ghiglia, Richard Provost, Robert Guthrie, and Alan Spriestersbach. He performed in master classes with David Tannenbaum, Manuel Barruecco, Sharon Isben, Nigel North, and Ben Verdery. Mr. McNeish is a member of the Connecticut College Chamber Players and has performed with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, the Goodspeed Opera Orchestra, the United States Coast Guard Band, and the Connecticut Orchestra. Mr. McNeish also performs regularly at the College, as a soloist throughout New England, and has recorded 2 classical guitar solo CD's, 1 flute and guitar CD (with ECSO Principal flautist Nancy Chaput). Prof. McNeish has several, live performance, solo and ensemble music videos, which can be found on YouTube.

Wendy K. Moy

Associate Professor of Music, Director of Choral Activities, Head of Music Education

Wendy K. Moy is a conductor, soprano, and nonprofit founder from Washington State. Dr.Moy was just named the third-place winner of The American Prize in Choral Conducting, professional division. She is currently the Director of Choral Activities and Music Education at Connecticut College and co-founder/co-artistic director of Chorosynthesis Singers.

Sean Nelson

Adjunct Instructor of Music

Sean Nelson plays trombone in the U.S. Coast Guard Band and the U.S. Coast Guard Dixieland Jazz Band. In addition, he is staff arranger for the concert band and music director and lead trombonist for the Guardians Big Band.

Patrice Newman

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music

Pianist Patrice Newman collaborates frequently in chamber music and art song. She has performed in concerts in the New York area including the Riverside Church, Hudson Highlands Music Festival, Peconic Chamber Orchestra, and in a Weill Recital Hall chamber music debut as a winner of the Artists International competition.

Rebecca Noreen

Adjunct Associate Professor of Music

Rebecca Noreen, bassoonist, was a winner of the Artist International Competition in New York City with the Kammer Quintet which appeared in two recitals in Carnegie Recital Hall.

Kelli O'Connor

Adjunct Instructor in Music, Clarinet

Clarinetist Kelli O’Connor enjoys a varied and vibrant career as a soloist, educator and chamber and orchestral musician. A founding member of the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston and the Radiance Woodwind Quintet, Ms. O’Connor is principal clarinet of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra and a former member of the Connecticut Orchestra, and appears frequently with the Vermont Symphony, Hartford Symphony Orchestra and as acting principal clarinet of the New Haven Symphony.

Kumi Ogano

Adjunct Associate Professor in Music

Pianist Kumi Ogano has earned universal acclaim as one of the authoritative performers of music by Japanese composers Toru Takemitsu and Akira Miyoshi. "The New York Times" praised her playing as “gracefully voiced, sensitively shaped, and richly emotional,” and "The Asahi" wrote, “Her rich musicality and technical virtuosity are simply amazing.”

Megan Sesma

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Harp

Megan Sesma has performed in venues that range from Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow Russia, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Carnegie Hall and numerous concert halls in South America. Her experience has placed her under the batons of some great conductors, ranging from Neeme Jarvi and Yuri Temirkanov to John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith. Ms. Sesma has also shared the stage with such legends of contemporary and popular music as Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall and Dianne Reeves.

Samantha Talmadge

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music

Vocalist Samantha Talmadge has performed as a soloist with many major symphony orchestras, including the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, New Britain Symphony and Chatter Chamber Ensemble. She has been a performer with professional companies such as Musica Romantica and Teatro Nuevo Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has also performed with Santa Fe Opera’s outreach program in Donizetti’s "The Nightbell."

Joshua Thomas

Adjunct Instructor in Music, saxophone

Dr. Joshua Thomas is an active concert saxophonist who is able to perform in a variety of musical settings, from the concert hall to the bandstand. As a member of the Coast Guard Band since 2000, he has performed around the world as a featured soloist, chamber musician, ensemble member, and at nationally important ceremonies.

Margaret (Midge) Thomas

Sylvia Marx Professor of Music, President, New England Conference of Music Theorists, 2013-2015

Devoted to teaching, Midge Thomas strives to share with her students the power music theory, aural skills, and analysis have to open new paths for understanding and performing music. Courses include Foundational Theory for Musicians, Tonal Theory, Counterpoint, Post-Tonal Theory, Service-Learning Practicum, and Music Analysis.

Jaime L. Thorne

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, French horn

After nearly four years with the U.S. Coast Guard Band, Jaime Thorne left the Coast Guard with an Honorable Discharge and has resumed her focus on orchestral music, playing most recently with the Hartford Symphony, the Nutmeg Symphony and Penn's Woods, a music festival at the Pennsylvania State University. She was most recently principal horn with the Breckenridge Music Festival.

Erin Todisco

Academic Department Assistant

etodisco@conncoll.edu

Libby Van Cleve

Adjunct Professor of Music

Libby Van Cleve, oboe teacher at Connecticut College, Wesleyan University and Director of Yale’s Oral History of American Music, is recognized as one of the foremost interpreters of chamber and contemporary music for the oboe.

Jurate Švedaite Waller

Adjunct Associate Professor of Music, Voice

Possessing a vocal artistry and stage presence capable of "transfixing audiences with moments of opera magic," Lithuanian soprano Jurate Švedaite has performed throughout Europe and the United States.

James Dale Wilson

Associate Professor of Music, Ethnomusicologist, Jazz Composer/Arranger

Dale Wilson writes music for a variety of media, including large and small jazz ensemble, full orchestra, chamber ensemble, string orchestra, wind ensemble, jazz chorus, Chinese instrumental ensemble, and rock ensemble. As an ethnomusicologist, Wilson’s principal areas of research are Guangdong ritual and ritual music, the interpenetration of opera and ritual, and Southeast Chinese perspectives on migration and transnationalism.

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