Faculty: Woodwind and Brass
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Amy Carroll (Flute/Piccolo/Recorder/Musical
Adventures) holds a B.F.A. degree in Flute Performance
from Boston University's School for the Arts. At BU,
Amy studied under Doriot Anthony Dwyer (former first
flute with the Boston Symphony). Currently, Amy plays
second flute and piccolo with the Civic Symphony of
Boston. She has also performed with the New Bedford,
Springfield and Brookline Symphony Orchestras. Since
1999, Amy has served as a teaching assistant to Doriot
Anthony Dwyer at the Tanglewood Flute Seminar each
summer. Amy also works for internationally known
professional flute-maker Verne Q. Powell Flutes
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Jonathan Clark (Trumpet) holds a B.M. degree from
Hartt School of Music and an M.M. degree in Performance
from the Manhattan School of Music. Jon frequently
performs with numerous orchestras, musical theaters,
and ensembles throughout New England. Locally, Mr.
Clark plays with the Worcester Symphony Orchestra and
the Central Massachusetts Symphony. He has served as
Director of the Cathedral of St. Patrick’s Brass
Ensemble in Norwich, Connecticut for the past fifteen
years. In addition to maintaining a varied and busy
free lance career, Mr. Clark has composed and arranged
pieces for several brass groups. He is currently on the
faculty of the Performing Arts School of Worcester, as
well as being an adjunct faculty member of Worcester
State College, Anna Maria College and Worcester
Polytechnic Institute. Jon has taught at Pakachoag for
over ten years. |
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Nike (Clarinet/Sax, Music Theory Classes and On-Line Tutorial) received her Bachelor of Music degree in Clarinet Performance from Manhattan School of Music, and Master of Music in Clarinet Performance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Prior to her degrees, Nike studied for two summers at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in New York, under principal clarinetist Anthony Gigliotti of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Her teachers include Charles Russo, former principal of the New York City Opera Orchestra, and Michael Sussman, principal clarinetist with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Currently Nike is on the music faculty at Anna Maria College and is supervisory teacher for the Afternoon Tunes program in Worcester, MA. Nike has been teaching clarinet, music theory and composition at Pakachoag Music School for 10 years. She continues to enjoy performing solo and chamber recitals in and around the Worcester area. |
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Barbara Shepherd received her Bachelor of Music in Brass Performance from Boston University College of Fine Arts and Master of Music in Horn Performance from New England Conservatory of Music. Her teachers include James Sommerville, Principal Horn, Boston Symphony Orchestra; Richard Menaul, Principal Horn, Boston Ballet Orchestra and Seth Orgel, Atlantic Brass Quintet.
In addition to extensive freelancing in the Boston and Chicago areas, Barbara has performed with the Zephyr Woodwind Quintet and Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. She was a founding member of the NEC Outreach Woodwind Quintet and can be heard on the Albany Records CD What a Piece of Work is Man: the Shakespeare Concerts with Soprano, Maria Ferrante. Barbara moved to Worcester this fall from Chicago where she was on faculty and an administrative team member at Merit School of Music.
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Sarah Smongeski (Flute; Pakachoag Music School Director) holds a
Certificate of Special Studies (C.S.S.) in
Administration and Management from Harvard
University, Extension School, and a B.A. in
Music (Summa Cum Laude) from Eastern Nazarene College. Her administrative
experience includes positions in the public sector (as
a consultant with the Mass. Dept. of Education);
private sector (with an international management
consulting firm’s Cambridge office) as well as
prior not-for-profit experience.
Sarah’s earliest musical studies began at the
age of 7 as a young recorder student in her native
England. She began playing the flute at the age of
12, two years after immigrating to the US with her
family. As a college student, Sarah studied with
Virginia Sindelar (a graduate of the Julliard School
and student of Julius Baker). She pursued additional
flute studies with Christopher Hyde Smith (of the
Royal College of Music, London), with Lois Schaffer
(formerly of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and with
Julius Baker as a participant in the Bowdoin College
Summer Music Festival.
In her early music career, Sarah performed with the
Quincy Symphony, the Marlborough Symphony , the
Northeastern University, and The Plymouth
Philharmonic orchestras. More recently she has
performed as a member of The New England Flute Duo
with her teacher Virginia Sindelar and in local
church performances with accompanist Malcolm
Halliday.
Ms. Smongeski has served as Pakachoag Music School director and flute
teacher since 1991. |
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