Faculty: Piano and Organ
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Janeen Baker (Piano; School Accompanist) holds a B.S.
in Music Education from Northern State University in
South Dakota and an M.M. in Church Music from the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Janeen taught
Junior High School music for four years in her early
career. Thereafter, she has taught piano and served
as Director of Music at various churches. She is a
member of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and
serves as a Member at Large for this organization.
Currently, Janeen serves as a substitute organist for
a variety of Worcester area churches.
From 1997 to 1999, Janeen took a leave-of-absence to
serve alongside her husband with the US Peace Corps
in Southern Africa. Upon returning to Pakachoag Music School in 1999,
she took on the additional responsibility of
Pakachoag Music School’ School Accompanist for student
Performance Classes and recitals. Janeen is a member
of the Pakachoag Chamber Players performing with
colleagues at area nursing homes and at private
functions. As of September 2001, she celebrates 12
years as a Pakachoag Music School faculty member. Janeen resides in
Princeton with her husband and Springer Spaniel,
Sophie. |
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Lea Lipner (Piano), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
began studying the piano when she was six years old.
From the age of 8 she studied under Julius
Grünstein, a German pianist and member of the
Düsseldorf School of Elly Ney, and a student of
Ignaz Friedman. Mrs. Lipner’s studies with
Maestro Grunstein continued until 1956. At that time
she was pursuing a career in mathematics at the
University of Buenos Aires where she graduated in
1965 with a Doctorate in Mathematics (focused on
theoretical orientation) and where she taught for
many years. In the US, Mrs. Lipner pursued her piano
studies with Theodore Lettvin (1976-77) and Darryl
Rosenberg (1979-87) in Boston. Mrs. Lipner has
presented solo recitals at WPI’s Higgins House,
at the Worcester Art Museum (in 1984), at Steinert
Hall in Boston, and at Pakachoag Music School. Mrs. Lipner has taught
at Pakachoag Music School for over ten years. |
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Inna Muravnik (Piano) was born in Russia and earned a
Bachelor and Masters Degree in music from the
Leningrad Conservatory, where she won the Schubert
Honors Competition and played with the Leningrad
Philharmonic. She was a member of the Leningrad
Concert Organization as a soloist, chamber music
performer and accompanist, and presented concerts in
major cities of the former Soviet Union. She annually
toured Russia and the Baltic Republics. After
immigrating to the United States in 1989, she earned
a post-graduate diploma from The Boston Conservatory.
Ms. Muravnik has won several competitions at The
Boston Conservatory, where she has presented numerous
recitals and performed as a soloist with The Boston
Conservatory Orchestra. She later joined The Boston
Conservatory as a piano faculty of Music Special
Programs Division. Currently, she is a piano
professor at Anna Maria College. Ms. Muravnik is an
active performer in the Boston and Worcester area.
She presented solo recitals and appeared in numerous
chamber music concerts at Boston Conservatory, Boston
University, New England Conservatory of Music,
Wellesley College, and the Federal Reserve Bank. |
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William Ness (Organ, Adjunct) is currently the
Minister of Music & Arts at First Baptist Church, an
American Baptist Church, of Worcester, Massachusetts
where he conducts two singing choirs and two bell
choirs. He has two degrees from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has done further study at
the University of Iowa. His organ teachers have been
Jennie Satre, Robert Speed, Robert Clark, Robert
Glasgow, and Delbert Disselhorst. While at the
University of Michigan he won the Graduate Concerto
Competition in 1971. Mr. Ness taught at Andrews
University from 1979 to 1982 as a sabbatical
replacement for C. Warren Becker. Following that
position he and his wife were Co-Directors of Music
at First Presbyterian Church, Ottumwa, Iowa where
they chaired the National Undergraduate Organ
Competition.
William is a performing member of Worcester Chamber
Music Society and Synergy, a harp, flute, organ trio.
He has taught privately for many years, and joined
Pakachoag Music School in 2008. |
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Vladimir Odinokikh began piano lessons at an early age and received training at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Gnessin Institute of Moscow (B.M., M.M.). Recipient of prizes in the Russia National Competition and Chamber Music Competition of Soviet Composers, Mr. Odinokikh has performed with Rosconcert and the Moscow Philharmonic, and has concertized in the concert halls of Europe, South America and the United States. He has premiered work by noted composer Alfred Schnittke, and recorded for radio and television in the former USSR, Mexico and the United States.
Mr. Odinokikh has taught at the Ippolitov-Ivanov College of Music in Moscow, the Alicia Urreta Center for the Arts in Mexico City and the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelios, Mexico. He has lived in the Keene area since 2001 and teaches at the Keene Community Music Center and the Brattleboro Music Center.He also serves as Organist/Accompanist at
the Keene Unitarian Universalist Church.
Vladimir joined the Pakachoag faculty in September 2011. |
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Curtis Smith (Piano) began studying piano at the age
of seven. He received his piano pedagogy training at
Stetson University in Deland, Florida, the
Paedagogische Hochschule in Freiburg, Germany and
most recently, he received his Masters of Music
degree in Piano Performance from West Chester
University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Smith chose to further his "Kodaly" music
education training at the International Kodaly
Institute in Kecskemet, Hungary and recently moved to
Oakham, Massachusetts to supplement his piano
training with the Alexander Technique, which he
studies at the Alexander Technique Center New England
in Amherst, MA.
The six years that Mr. Smith has spent teaching
privately and as a faculty member of several
community music schools have allowed him to develop a
unique teaching style that engages the imagination of
students to motivate their learning experience. |
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