1921: Lost Alumni

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1932: Lost Alumni
    

1933: Maria Rosetti Polvere
Maria Rosetti Polvere is 94 years old and still playing four times a week for local churches, assisted living communities, the Council on Aging, the Salvation Army, and many more groups. She has been performing with the Bells and Beaus Group for 20 years.

1933: Lost Alumni
 

1934: Lost Alumni
 

1935: Lost Alumni
    

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1937: Lost Alumni

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1942: Lost Alumni

1943: Lost Alumni

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1946: Lost Alumni

1947: Lost Alumni

1948: Jean A. Savignano
Jean is retired from the City of Cambridge Hospital Department and is living in Brighton House, an assisted living residence. She participates in a singing group, in which she has solo parts and special scenes. These programs are open to the public and she enjoys them greatly.

1948: Lost Alumni

1949: Lost Alumni

1949: Maryellen J. Rounds
Maryellen volunteers at the Pasadena Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Pasadena , FL where she plays piano. She may soon be forced to give it up, however, due to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. She does plan to continue volunteering at the Center in another way, if that occurs. She wishes “Good luck to all of you young graduates of the Boston Conservatory! You have been given a great gift with your music. Cherish it!”

1950: Ann Therese Bouchard

Ann Therese Bouchard passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, on October 27th, 2008 after a long battle with lung disease. She has left many warm memories with her husband of 59 years, alumnus Robert Bouchard ’48 ’50, her children, as well as her grandchildren.
1950: Lost Alumni

1951: John E. Hahn, Jr.
John E. Hahn, Jr. performed with an eight piece jazz group at the Sidney Hill C.C. for 10 years. He also taught in public schools for 36 years and has been retired since 1988.

1951: Lost Alumni

1952: Ann Tripodes Spring
Ann Tripodes Spring retired in 1994.

1952: Arthur Daniels
Daniels earned his MFA in Composition from Brandeis University and his PhD in Musicology from the University of Southern California.

1952: Frank J. Cedrone
Frank J. Cedrone is currently directing the dance program at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, MA and runs a private dance studio at The Dance Complex.

1952: Helen Gonzalez
Since graduating from the Conservatory, Helen Gonzalez has worked in real estate and received the National and International Hall of Fame recognition.

1952: Joseph Markarian
Joseph Markarian has retired from playing the violin. He has two grandsons aged 20 and 24.

1952: Lost Alumni

1952: Michael J. Vara
Michael J. Vara performed with the Boston Pops for three years and then was a substitute for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1953: Joel A. Morneault
Morneault is now retired and just celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary.

1953: De Sayles R. Grey
De Sayles R. Grey currently performs with the De Sayles Grey Sextet, who frequently perform his original compositions.

1953: Lost Alumni

1954: Lost Alumni

1955: Lost Alumni
 

1956: Richard Satterfield
Satterfield is still actively playing with his jazz group, Piedmont Jazz Group and privately teaching.

1956: Lost Alumni


1956: Richard L. Satterfield
Richard L. Satterfield has been playing drums and performing with the Piedmont Jazz Group for 35 years.

1957: John Pellegrino
Pellegrino is retired and currently serves as the Artistic Director of Music on the Hill in RI.

1957: Lost Alumni


1958: Morris E. Goldstein
Goldstein continued his education at The Berklee School of Music where he was able to play with Buddy Rich. He is playing with many bands, such as the Harry James Band where he plays lead alto. Goldstein is also the leader of 17-piece jazz band and teaches over 30 students.

1958: John D. LaCroix
John LaCroix is still teaching piano and woodwinds. He has seven children and many grandchildren.

1958: Lost Alumni
  

1959: Lost Alumni

1959: Reeva Gibley Cooper
Cooper is living in a retirement home where she organizes activities including socials, dances, and fashion shows.

1960: Dorothy DeLutis Beaton
Beaton is the Artistic Director for the Dance Department at Franklin School of the Arts in Franklin, MA.

1960: Frank J. Gubala
Gubala is enjoying spending time with his three musically talented grandchildren.

1960: Carolyn Bean
Carolyn Bean recently performed in the play Moon Over Buffalo in the role of Ethel.

1960: Lost Alumni

1960: R. Natalie Helms
R. Natalie Helms received her M.F.A. from Yale University Drama School in acting and her M.S. degree from Fordham University in human resource education and organizational development. She now works as the contact trainer for FleetBoston Financial Partners in Learning. She is an experienced actor and singer having appeared in more than 100 television and radio commercials for the major networks. She is a member of National Association of Female Executives, American Society for Training and Development, Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

1960: Salvatore Aiello
Salvatore passed away on Saturday, October 14, 1995 at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC at the age of 51. Salvatore danced with Joffrey Ballet, Harkness Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Eglevsky Ballet and the Hamburg State Opera. He was the acting director at North Carolina Dance Theater before his death.

1961: John Battis
Battis is still actively playing gigs in various musical stylings.

1961: John Daly King
John King is still very active teaching dance.

1961: Lost Alumni


1961: Louis Pezzullo
Louis Pezzullo has been retired since 1996. He was the principle trombonist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic for 20 years and a music education professor at the Rhode Island College. He is currently the assistant chairman of the Rhode Island Retired Music Educators and is a part of the Rhode Island Brass Quintet.

1962: Ann Costello
Ann Costello received her M.A. from Queens College.

1962: Antonio Salvatori
Antonio Salvatori currently runs and performs with the American Heritage Orchestra whose purpose is to enrich the musical education of our Children by presenting, in schools, live concerts by The American Heritage Orchestra, LTD. which is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of our rich heritage of American Music through research and performance. This summer, the orchestra performed in an amphitheater next to the Ohio River in downtown Wheeling, WV.

1962: Judith J. Yanchus
Yanchus is currently concertmaster for the Norwalk Symphony in Norwalk, CT.

1962: Kathy Wilson Whitelaw
Kathy is the Honorary Chair of the Dance Department at the Academy of Performing Arts in Orleans, MA. She is now teaching a limited schedule and is the mother of three grown children and the grandmother of three. She recently visited Ruth Ambrose and found her to be an inspiration still!

1962: Lost Alumni

1962;1964: Jim Progris
Jim Progris taught at The Boston Conservatory while obtaining his Master's Degree (1962-1964) and for the next ten years at Berklee School of Music. He then continued on to the University of Miami in 1969, where he recently began a new masters program called Arts Presenting. The program is designed on the planning, development and implementation of arts events.

1963/1972: Ted Casher
Casher is currently working with the Harry James Orchestra, the Benny Goodman Tribute Band, the Jazz Tuber Trio, and the John Badessa Orchestra. He was recently featured as alto sax on the George Masso Project's current CD. Ted also performs at the Road House in Hyannis, MA and the Oak Room in Boston, MA.

1963/1975: Clifford M. Weeks

Clifford is now working part time as the City Music Faculty Outreach Coordinator for Berklee College of Music.

1963: Anita Castiglione Ricci
Anita Castiglione Ricci is currently the Secretary of the Chopin Society and a member of the Miami Opera Guild. She received her Masters degrees from Florida International University and Boston College.

1963: Lost Alumni

1963: Robert F. Mainelli
Robert F. Mainelli recently performed in a Tribute to Frank Sinatra in Rhode Island. Bob has been active teaching high school and performing as a jazz singer in Rhode Island. He has also performed on television all over the East Coast and owned his own contracting office for 40 years.

1964/1971 Gilbert A. Madrigale
Madrigale is currently teaching private lessons and running a radio program featuring American Jazz and the Great American Songbook on WOMR 92.1 in Provincetown, MA.

1964: Gertrude M. McDermott
Gertrude M. McDermott retired from teaching elementary school in Providence, Rhode Island in 2002.

1964: Lost Alumni

1964: Michael R. Hathaway
Michael R. Hathaway is currently the Director of the White Mountain Hypnosis Center in Madison, NH and specializes in helping people of all ages identify and develop their unique gifts and abilities to move forward with their life purpose. Michael has written three books on hypnosis, which were published in 2003. You can visit his website at www.whitemountainhypnosiscenter.com.

1965: Lisa G. Berg
Berg performed a program at the Joyce Theater in December honoring Jose Limon's 10th Anniversary with the Jose Limon Dance Company along with fellow alumnus James May ‘65.

1965: James May
May performed a program at the Joyce Theater in December honoring Jose Limon's 10th Anniversary with the Jose Limon Dance Company along with fellow alumna Lisa Berg '65.

1965: Alice Prechtl Coughlin
Alice Coughlin received her Masters at New York University while dancing in Pearl Lang's Modern Dance Company.  She is not currently dancing and substitutes in the public school system.

1965: James May
James May recently traveled to Holland to set a piece for the Netherlands Dance Theatre. This summer he will be teaching master classes at PeriDance in NYC.

1965: Lost Alumni

1965: Stephen Gozan
Stephen Gozan is teaching in White Plains, NY.

1966: Harriet Lynn
Lynn conceived and directed East Side West Side Life Stories for Fells Point Corner Theatre. The program has delighted and touched many audiences throughout the community and beyond, including performances at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore Museum of Industry, the Jewish Museum of Maryland and others.

1966: Richard T. Messier
Messier is enjoying his retirement and is currently spending his time babysitting his grandchildren and taking care of his family.

1966: Bonnie Ano-Martin
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1966: Christina Fadala
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1966: Lester Hulsman
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1966: Lost Alumni

1966: Pasco S. Iuliano
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1966: Wilma Hernandez Tripodi
Wilma and her husband, John, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary this year. They met 44 years ago at the Back Bay Pharmacy while they were both students. They moved to the northern neck of Virginia where they own a restaurant in Kilmarnock . Wilma plans on joining the local community theater.

1967/1994: Anne Wedekind
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1967: Christina A. Parker
This alum is LOST. If you have any information about this alum, please email us.    

1967: Dale L. L'Amoureux
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1967: Eliese M. Gallo
Eliese M. Gallo owns her own travel company called Carmel Tours in Peabody, MA. She has spent 15 years organizing tours and pilgrimages to overseas destinations for groups.

1967: John G. Clegg
John G. Clegg is now retired.

1967: Kenneth Happel
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1967: Lost Alumni

1967: Paul Monaghan
This alum is LOST. If you have any information about this alum, please email us.    

1967: Rose A. Riles
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1967: Sheryl Parsons
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1967: Simone Marcus
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1967: Susan Beil Connally

Connally’s dance company, which she operates with her daughter and fellow alumna Karin Connally ’96, the San Antonio Ballet, will be hosting a regional dance festival in 2010.

1967;1974: Cynthia Mihala Zettlemoyer
Cynthia Mihala Zettlemoyer is currently teaching early music and piano at a private school. She is also teaching Kindermusik and expecting her second grandchild.

1968: John Smith
Smith is now retired after 35 years of teaching. He continues to do outreach work through Bridgewater College and is still an active trumpet player.

1968: Marilyn Schwaner
Schwaner is retired at the age of 78.

1968: Arsen Russian
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1968: Carolyn Burke
This alum is LOST. If you have any information about this alum, please email us.    

1968: Carolyn Nicholas Baumann
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1968: Charles Cox
This alum is LOST. If you have any information about this alum, please email us.    

1968: Charlotte Lowry
This alum is LOST. If you have any information about this alum, please email us.    

1968: Gail Dufour
Dufour is still teaching elementary school music at an inner city school.

1968: Helana Kelley
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1968: Lost Alumni

1968: Michael A. Norman
Michael A. Norman has worked as an independent insurance agent in Newton, MA for the last 26 years. He has recently started a new business for video asset documentation. The company, Our Video Legacy, documents personal property for insurance and estate planning.

1968: Robert Fritz

Fritz is the founder of a consulting firm, Robert Fritz Inc. based in Newfane, Vermont. Their range of programs, services and products are designed to help individuals and organizations create the results they want to create. Fritz is also the author of five books including The Managerial Moment of Truth, Your Life as Art, The Path of Least Resistance for Managers, The Path of Least Resistance, and Creating.

1969 & 1974: Fred A. Pasqua
Fred A. Pasqua is currently working at Harrison High School and planning a trip to Disney World in March 2009 for their 175 piece Choir and Concert band.

1969: David Isadore
David Isadore recently retired as a band director. He is currently working with the Jazz Ensemble and Concert Band at the University of Texas Brownstead. He also conducts an Adult Concert Band and sits principle in the South Texas Symphony.

1969: James Toro
James Toro is currently working in real estate and property management. Artistically, he is an active writer and composer.

1969: James Toro
James Toro is still actively writing and composing music. In addition to his artistic endeavors he also works in real estate and property management.


1969: Janet L. Tower
Janet L. Tower is currently working as a speech and language pathologist in the public school system.

1969: Linda Madama
Linda Madama performed in Columbus (OH) for five years with Vaud-Villities, a high-energy showcase of uniquely American music and dance.

1969: Lost Alumni

1970: Barbara Ann Peters
Barbara Ann Peters is currently the executive director of Greensboro Opera Company in North Carolina, the district governor of NC-NATS and a faculty member at both the University of North Carolina (Greensboro) and Elon University.

1970: Dale Miriam Andree
Dale Miriam Andree established the Mary Street Dance Theatre in 1985. She has been a recipient of the Florida Individual Artist Fellowships as well as receiving funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for Mary Street Dance Theatre. Dale has taught internationally, as well as conducted residency workshops at festivals in Florida, Peru, Brazil and Columbia. She is committed to developing the South Florida improvisation community through teaching, performing and presenting improvisational artists.

1970: Gloria Bonnin
Gloria has been teaching voice for 10 years. She trains students in musical theater and runs college audition prep workshops.

1970: John H. McGirr
Jack is presently performing with his Brass Quintet, Celestial Brass, in central New York state. The group is playing concerts, church services and parties.

1970: Jonette Lancos
Jonette, a Professor of Dance at SUNY Geneseo, will be on sabbatical spring semester of 2009 to begin researching and writing her second book to be published by Mellen Press. Her first book Reclaiming Charles Weldman: An American Dancer's Life and Legacy was published by Mellen Press in May 2007.

1970: Linda G. Krylo Sullivan
Linda G. Krylo Sullivan is currently the owner of Krylo Dance Studios in Woonsocket (RI), which has been part of the Krylo family since 1950.

1970: Linda G. Krylo Sullivan
Linda Krylo Sullivan is currently the owner of Krylo Dance Studios in Woonsocket, RI, which has been part of the Krylo family since 1950.

1970: Lost Alumni

1970: Sandy Borrie

Since graduating, Borrie has performed in numerous shows on Broadway and also appeared in TV shows, such as The Facts of Life, The Twilight Zone and Remington Steele. Borrie is currently teaching at Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth, NH.

1971: Michael Owens
Owens just finished filming for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as the ballet master.

1971: Lost Alumni
 

1971: Michael Joseph Lamy
Michael Joseph Lamy performed at The Steinway Society of Central Florida with his sister Catherine in April 2008. The concert was a benefit, which provided pianos to students of limited means.  The pair performed a program of songs from Broadway musicals.

1972/1975: John Gary Magby

Magby took part in a study at a conference hosted by The Dana Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland during July 2008. The study consisted of how the brain reacts to music conveying different emotions titled Music and the Brain: from Perception to Emotion.

1972: Lost Alumni

1972: Marjorie Miller Nelson
Marjorie Miller Nelson is teaching in Timberlane Public Schools as a string specialist. She received the 2001 New Hampshire String Teacher of the Year from the New Hampshire chapter of the American String Teachers Association with the National School Orchestra Association.

1972: Michael Brigida
Michael Brigida has served on the faculty as an associate professor of music synthesis at Berklee College of Music since 1987. Brigida is also an international product specialist for ARP, CBS Rhodes Chroma and Kurzweil Music Systems.

1972: Rene De La Garza
Rene De La Garza is still performing with the Rhode Island Civic Choralle. They recently held a concert featuring Mozart's C minor Mass with Kristen Charpentier '04.  De La Garza is also scheduled to premiere the works of Paul Phillips with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.

1972: Susan Dorchin
Susan is currently teaching voice at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton , Florida where she obtained her M.M. in 2004. She also writes and hosts an opera radio show on a local NPR station.

1973: Virginia Garton Woodbury
Virginia Garton Woodbury received her Ph.D. in Education. She currently teaches at Dudzinski Studios and works in costuming for Dance Theatre of PA.

1973: Allan J. Seward
Allan J. Seward has been working with Laurie Brongo '76, for more than 10 years on productions at Clarkstown South High School in Rockland County, NY. This year they produced The Laramie Project. Currently, he is the technical director for Westchester Community College, Clarkstown South High School and Nanuet High School, in addition to doing lighting design work at local community theaters. Allan is also a member of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 645.

1973: Barbra Dale Solomon
Barbra Dale Solomon is working as an avid performer. She is currently singing and accompanying in a musical theater chorus and playing in piano bars as well as DoubleTree Hotel. Solomon has also worked as an accompanist at Walnut Hill and at The Boston Conservatory.

1973: Eugenia L. Douglas O'Brien
Eugenia L. Douglas O’Brien, artistic director of the Portland Ballet, presented the family favorite Peter and the Wolf in May 2009 at the John Ford Theater on the campus of Portland High School.

1973: Howard Sherman
Howard Sherman is currently working as a psychotherapist. He specializes in using music therapy techniques.

1973: Linda Lane Smith
Linda Lane Smith has performed extensively throughout Europe and at the Wolf Trap, Seattle, Dallas, and Portland Operas. She was a soloist at Kennedy Center's Bicentennial. Thomas Pasatieri requested she create the role of Clara for the world premiere of his opera Signor Deluso. An Oregon native living in New York, Smith is the co-owner of SmartWood and a strong advocate of forest certification. Syhe was also a finalist in The Contemporary Opera International Singing Competition and was involved in the filming of two commercials for Verizon and a Glacier Film Avalanch Production.

1973: Lost Alumni

1973: Rosemary Costa Stone
Rosemary Costa Stone is currently working as music director at a Catholic church in Boca Raton, FL.

1973: Thomas Anthony Curtis
Thomas Anthony Curtis performs with the Springfield Symphony Chorus in Springfield, MA and South Hadley Summer Stock productions as a member of the pit orchestra.

1973: William Winiker
William Winiker is currently performing at Upstairs on the Square in Cambridge, MA with his band, the “Bill and Bo Winiker Band,” which performed with Aretha Franklin in 1993.

1973: William Winiker
Bill and Bo Winiker have led the band at Skipjacks Jazz Brunch every Sunday for the last 18 years in Copley Square from noon to 3pm.

1974 & 1978: Martha Dahlberg
Martha Dahlberg is currently performing as a soloist with the Christian Science Church in Rockford, MA.

1974/1978: David W. Fuller
David has been the Coordinator of Liturgical Music at St. Anselm Church in Chesterland, OH since December, 2001 and completed a composition of a mass for them. He has also been the instructor of voice at The Fairmount Center for the Arts in Novelty, OH since February, 1995.

1974/1991: Gay Nardone
Gay is now a full professor at the University of New Hampshire in the Department of Theater and Dance.

1974: Jon Neal Selzer
Selzer has owned a private practice in financial planning for the last 20 years.  Jon also took part in the presidential election this year by doing work on the Obama Campaign. He is living in New York with his wife and daughter.

1974: Carla Dragoni-Raper
Carla Dragoni-Raper is working as a Professor with the Upward Bound Program at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Carla teaches Creative Writing during the regular academic year and a special program in the summer, Self 101. Self 101 is a program developed by Carla to bring the student’s emotional competence on parity with academic achievement.  She also has a private life coaching practice in Georgetown, Texas.

1974: Denise De Caro
Denise De Caro will be performing with the Mike Renzi Trio throughout the New England area.

1974: Denise De Caro
Denise moved to Los Angeles in 1977 and began to showcase at Hollywood's Improv Club and several cabaret venues. She has become one of LA's top vocal contractors to the stars and has recorded and performed with Burt Bacharach, Barbra Streisand, Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, Cher, David Foster and for TV, film and commercials. She has received several gold and platinum albums. After graduating from the Conservatory, Denise won the role of Anita in the European touring company of West Side Story. She performed the role in German and learned it in two weeks. She is very grateful to the Conservatory and her teachers, Roy Masterson, Robert Leibacher, Mr. Grant, Madame Falco and Ed Principe for helping her prepare for the role of a lifetime.

1974: Edmond J. Moussally
Edmond J. Mousally is currently teaching vocal performance classes at Bunker Hill Community College. He is also in the process of writing an autobiography.

1974: Lost Alumni
 

1974: Nelma M. Kelly-Moore
Nelma M. Kelley-Moore was recently married and is still actively teaching violin and piano to students of all ages.

1975 & 1976: Elyse Knobloch
Knobloch currently plays with the Bas Duo, a flute and guitar duo that develops diverse and well rounded programs using works from Italy, France, Spain, the U.S., Bulgaria and more.

1975/1979: Kathryn Floyd-Camacho

Floyd-Camacho teaches in school and privately including Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA. She has also released several CDs including Deep Down My Vision; a CD of classical, sacred and Celtic music that has been aired in Ireland.

1975: Nancy Starr
Starr is teaching at the New England Institute of Technology, specifically classes such as History of Rock n' Roll, Intersection of Music & Technology and Computer Assisted Keyboard Lab.

1975: Barbara Parish-Scillieri
Parish-Scillieri is in her 23^rd year as the Director of Dance at The Williams School on New London, CT. She received a Dance Educators Fellowship to attend The Bates Dance Festival in the summer of 2008.

1975: Diane Goldstein Kontoff
Diane Goldstein Kontoff is living in Chicopee, MA where she teaches elementary school music. She is also the coordinator of elementary music for MMEA-Western District and facilitatse sharing workshops for elementary music educators, and music education majors in Western Massachusetts.

1975: Heidi Jane Miller
Heidi Miller is one of the first four full-time teaching artists recently hired by the Lincoln Center Institute.

1975: Lost Alumni


1975: Michele McCourt
Michele McCourt is currently teaching at the Pope John Paul Catholic Academy. She is also currently directing Les Miserable and Annie.

1976: Gregory Fritze
Gregory Fritze currently plays tuba with the Rhode Island Philharmonic. He was recently the keynote speaker at the Rodrigo Festival in El Paso (TX), and had three compositions performed by the Barda Municipal Band.

1976: Karen Peterson Corash
Karen Peterson's South Florida groundbreaking mixed-ability company, Karen Peterson and Dancers, will present the world premiere of their new video dance fusion work, Mano a Mano, along with the popular piece Future Memories in May 2009.


1976: William B. Richter
Richter has been a teacher in public schools for 26 years, the director of the Pilgrim Festival Chorus for 10 years and acts as Chair of the Massachusetts Music Educators Association.

1976: Andrea Herbert Major
Andrea Herbert Major is currently celebrating the 42nd year of her school, the Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts.

1976: David J. Dumont
Dumont recently produced a concert with Derrick Olsen and is putting on the “Steinway Dining Experience”. David also became an honorary patron of Mu Phi Epsilon.

1976: Domenic Pallaria
After 36 years of Teaching (30 at the White Mountains Regional High School in Northern NH) Domenic and his wife Donna are now retired. They spend their time enjoying their 6 grandchildren, traveling, and at family gatherings.

1976: Gail Compton
Compton is currently working in the nonprofit sector and raising her family. She is a foster mother and has one son in college and another son is touring with his band.

1976: Gregory Fritze
Gregory Fritze currently plays tuba with the Rhode Island Philharmonic. He recently was the keynote speaker at the Rodrigo Festival in El Paso (TX) and had three of his compositions performed by the Barda Municipal Band.

1976: Karen Peterson Corash
Karen recently had the opportunity to teach 'mixed-ability' dance at the Youth Disabilities Association in Podgorica , Montenegro and at the Booker T. Washington Senior High School’s special needs program in Miami.

1976: Laurie Brongo
Laurie Brongo is currently teaching at Town School in New York City, NY.  She has been working with Allan J. Seward ‘73, for the last 10 years on productions at Clarkstown South High School in Rockland County, NY.

1976: Lost Alumni

1976: Mark J. Worgaftik
After graduating from The Boston Conservatory, Mark J. Worgaftik received his M.M. and A.D. from The Juilliard School. After finishing school, he held the position of principal percussion of the Filarmónica de Caracas in Venezuela. On returning to the United States in 1982 he moved to Boston to pursue a free lance career. In the last 20 years Worgaftik has played for most of Boston's downtown theaters as well as maintaining a 15-year association with the North Shore Theater. His most recent work at the Colonial Theater has been the shows Ragtime, The Full Monty, Mamma Mia and The Producers.

1976: Peter Harris
Peter Harris plays clarinet and is the director of several community bands.

1976: Robert M. Lada
Robert M. Lada works for Blue Cross-Blue Shield and is an avid traveler.



1977: Karen Ford Sullivan
Sullivan has been employed as a general music teacher in Weymouth, MA since 1995. She became a grandmother on December 20, 2007.

1977: Margaret Lavin Weisman
Weisman is teaching ballet at California Dance Theatre in Atoura Hills, CA.

1977: Regina O'Malley
O’Malley is still performing in commercials and teaching.

1977: George W. Crenshaw
George W. Crenshaw is currently working as the Theatre Arts Coordinator of Education Alternative in the Greater Cleveland area.

1977: Geralyn Kozel Frishman
Frishman and her husband run a recording studio out of their house in CT.

1977: Gerard F. Alessandrini
Alessandrini is still working with Forbidden Broadway and he will be directing his new show Creature of the Lagoon at Universal Studios in CA.

1977: Karen Murphy
Karen appeared in A Night of Operetta at the Town Hall in NYC, and as Mud Donohue in Mud Donahue And Son at the New York Theater Festival.

1977: Kenneth David Beck

Beck is currently the Assistant to the Music Director serving as Specialist in Music and Media of the Dance Department at the University of Illinois.

1977: Lisa Orlando
Lisa was recently nominated for a news Emmy for her work editing the piece The Unauthorized History of Video Games for CNBC. Lisa also enrolled in the Swedish Institute's Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Graduate program.

1977: Lost Alumni

1977: Richard McIntyre
Richard is pursuing his doctorate in composition at Temple University . His set of four songs for tenor and piano was recently performed at Tufts University by John MacDonald (piano) and Conservatory voice faculty member Thomas Gregg.

1977: Richard McIntyre
Richard McIntyre is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He is retired from teaching in June of 2009 and is pursuing travles up and down the east coast.

1977;1979;1980: Anita Ashur Wakim
Anita Ashur Wakim is currently working as the choir directior at Hellenic Cathedral in Boston, a music director at Our Lady of Assunciation Parish in West Roxbury, a substitute organist and solo vocalist in churches and a violinist throughout Boston. She will be going back to school to study Byzantine Music at Hellenic College.

1978/1980: Dr. Michael Zavoski
Michael, along with fellow alumnus Craig Garner ’81, is the co-owner of and composer for dorm40music.com, a music publishing concept.

1978/1991: Jennifer L. Lloyd
Lloyd is pursuing an MFA in Asian Dance at the University of Hawaii.

1978: Andrea Lyman
Andrea Lyman wrote, produced and starred in the touring production of the one woman show called Broadway Lady.  She also is involved in films and recently produced a short film titled The Donor Film.

1978: Cynthia King
King is still running her school and studio of 250-350 students. Cynthia also has created a line of the only vegan ballet shoes on the market.

1978: John L. Schuller
John L. Schuller is currently serving as a substitute teacher in the Easton Public Schools system in MA.

1978: Keith Papa
Papa sings and plays clarinet in a successful 14-piece swing orchestra founded in 2002 called Daddio Swing Orchestra.

1978: Kerry F. Sjoblom
Kerry F. Sjoblom has been active in music education since her graduation from the Conservatory. She currently is the Chair of the music department at The Oakwood School, a private school in North Hollywood, CA where she has worked for the past 24 years.

1978: Carol Smith
Carol Smith has raised three musically talented children. Two daughters are attending Oberlin for flute and cello and her eldest daughter is attending Juilliard for her M.M. in cello performance.

1978: Chloe Webb

Chloe was acknowledged for her role as actress and co-writer in Forbidden Broadway where she played the roles of Angela Lansbury and Andrea McArdle (the original Annie). She is also noted for her big screen debut as Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy where she played opposite Gary Oldman. Additionally she played Danny DeVito's girlfriend in Twins and had a recurring role in the T.V. drama China Beach . Her other credits include an abduction victim in Ghost Busters 2 , playing opposite Debra Winder in Dangerous Woman , and a small role in Queens of Logic . In 1993 she played Mona Ramsey in Tales of the City and in 2005 was spotted guest starring in the T.V. shows House, Judging Amy, Two and a Half Men, and Medium.

1978: Craig Caldwell
Craig Caldwell works as a regional supervisor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a position for Federal Occupational Health.

1978: Lost Alumni

1978: Michael Mikuski
Mike is a freelance musician throughout New England as well as an instrumental teacher in the Georgetown, MA and North Reading, MA public schools and at the West Newbury School of Music.

1978: Peter Paul Reckell
Peter Paul Reckell plays the character of Bo on Days of our Lives.



1978: Victor S. Denny
Victor S. Denny is currently teaching in the public school system in North Carolina.

1978: Walter Edward Barnie
Walter Edward Barnie was married in 2004 and performs extensively throughout the New England area. Walter is currently playing with the Symphony Pro Music and the Massachusetts Symphony.  He formed and performs oboe with the North Shore Winds Quintet along with alumna Dawn Petersen ’98.

1979: Johannah Beach Segarich
Segarich has been a full-time Associate Professor of Music at Middlesex Community College for the last 16 years.

1979: Lorrie B. Landsberg
Landsberg has just stopped teaching in NYC and will soon be relocating to Florida to teach.

1979: Mara Pupols Abermanis

Abermanis is a physical therapist at Whittier Rehab Hospital in Westborough, MA.

1979: Patricia Merlucci
Patricia Merlucci currently teaches elementary general music and band in Wayne (NJ). She also freelances as a pianist and accompanist, leads choirs and plays the organ as Music Director at the Bound Brook United Methodist Church.

1979: Susan Stone MacDonald
MacDonald’s company Brown Bag Opera closed about 5 years ago. She is now painting portraits that hang in the Harvard School of Public Health and around the country.

1979: Clara R. Batchelder
Clara R. Batchelder has been living in the Philippines and teaching lessons at the Fundacion Centro Flamenco where she taught a month-long intensive course on Flamenco and Andaluzzi. Batchelder recently danced in Repertory Philippines' production of Man of La Mancha, in Greenbelt, Makati. She has been the lead dancer and choreographer for the Ramon de los Reyes Dance Theater and is known for her innovative choreography in the Northeast and abroad. Batchelder has taught at The Boston Conservatory, Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts and the Clara Ramona Dance Studio in Madrid.  Batchelder and her dance studio were featured in the magazine Town and Country in an article Flamenco Comes Home. 

1979: Clara Ramon Batchelder
Clara and her dance studio were featured in the magazine Town and Country in an article called “Flamenco Comes Home.”

1979: Deborah A. Trimble
Deborah Trimble has been working as artistic director of a local community program and a youth theater program for the last 13 years.

1979: Jeff Colby
Jeff is a music teacher at the Boston Arts Academy.

1979: Lost Alumni

1979: M. Carole Drago

Drago has a private psychotherapy practice and two daughters, ages 13 & 17.

1979: Rita W. Earle
Rita W. Earle currently runs her own business and plays flute in a quartet.

1979: Roberta Rose Kennedy
Roberta Rose Kennedy relocated to the Bermuda Islands four years after graduating from The Boston Conservatory. She returned to Boston to take an administrative position with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Symphony Orchestra Gift Shop. 

1980 Kimberly Diamond
Kimberly Diamond is currently working at Concord Community College and teaching privately.



1980: Adrienne L. Starrs

Adrienne L. Starrs is currently teaching at the Sea Coast Academy of Music in NH.

1980: Cheryl L. Opperman
Cheryl L. Opperman is currently the Program Associate at the New England Foundation of the Arts and the National Dance Project.

1980: Elise Dewsberry Green
Green is currently the Assistant Artistic Director at The Academy for New Musical Theatre in LA. They develop new musicals, such as a new version of Bonnie & Clyde by Hunter Foster and Rick Crom, which won most promising new musical at the NYMS Festival.

1980: James Antonio
Antonio is working in IT at a software management company.

1980: Joseph C. Hodge
Hodge is the Director of Sales for a travel company that schedules performance tours for bands, choirs and orchestras.

1980: Margaret Perkins
Perkins is a reading teacher in an elementary school and has two daughters.

1980: Randolph S. Kravette
Kravette is working as a systems analyst and playing in some bands that perform mostly jazz music.

1980: Cheryl L. Opperman
Cheryl is a founding director at Green Street Studios where she continues to teach modern technique classes. In addition, she is a program associate at New England Foundation for the Arts in the National Dance Project.

1980: Jacqueline Moody
Jacqueline Moody is still teaching music at Miami Dade Public schools. She recently received the Marquis Who's Who of American Women and the Cambridge Who's Who of American Women. She was also recognized by the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Club.

1980: James Mailhot
James Mailhot is currently enjoying doing various singing activities.

1980: Kathleen Conlan
Kathleen Conlan teaches vocal music at the Common School, a small independent school in Amherst. She also directs the Hampshire Young People's Chorus and serves as repertoire and standards chair for Children's Choirs for the eastern division of the American Choral Director's Association (ACDA). Kathleen lives in Amherst with husband, Joe Elkinton, and three teenagers.

1980: Lost Alumni

1981: Gretchen French
Gretchen French is currently working as a physical therapist at a private practice.

1981: Kathleen Kelble
Kathleen Kelble has been a teacher for 21 years and currently owns her own dance studio.

1981: Lily Afshar
Afshar has released a DVD titled Virtuoso Guitar for Mel Bay, Inc. The DVD features the virtuosic masterpiece 24 Caprichos de Goya, OP. 195. She shows Goya's etchings and gives commentaries on the relationship between the artistic works and the musical pieces.

1981: Mitchell C. Warren
Warren no longer works in the music business and currently is working for the government.

1981: Paul E. Marotta
Marotta is the Executive Director for Home of Fresh Air at WHYY in Philadelphia, PA.

1981: Richard L. Seifert, Jr.
Seifert is teaching full time group piano at a digital lab in his home.

1981: Craig A. Garner
Craig, along with fellow alumnus Michael Zavoski ’78 ‘80, is the co-owner of and composer for dorm40music.com, a music publishing concept.

1981: Cynthia Cummins
Cynthia Cummins is currently the Director of Music at St. Francis de Sal Catholic Church. She is also a published composer of Catholic music.

1981: Ida Meister
Ida Meister is currently working as an international perfume consultant. She has also worked in nursing and is actively singing.

1981: Jane Beck
Jane is the Dance Director at the UB Kinsey School of the Arts in West Palm Beach , FL. She was named Who's Who of American Women in 2007 and Who's Who in America in 2008.

1981: Lost Alumni

1981: Michael Morizio
Michael Morizio still performs regularly and is a partner with E-Solutions Corporation based in Tampa, Florida.

1981: Paul Marotta
Paul Marotta is the executive director of Public Information for WHYY in Philadelphia, PA. Marotta is responsible for leading WHYY’s media relations, community outreach and member and audience Services efforts.

1981: Stanley M. Hoffman
Hoffman has been named co-winner of the First Prize in the 2008-2009 Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition for his setting of the poem Nature by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He shares the first prize honors with Kevin Jones of New Malden, Surrey, in the United Kingdom. In addition to a cash award to be presented to the composer, the premiere performances will take place on February 28, 2009 and on March 1, 2009 in Portland, Maine.

1982: Bonnie Litteral
Bonnie Litteral is currently on the Board of the Orff Chapter Choir in FL.

1982: Dorcas Lawson Rodkey
Dorcas Lawson Rodkey is currently teaching pre-school and raising three children in North Carolina.

1982: Dr. Nectar R. Redman
Redman is a psychologist specializing in creativity. She is also the chair of the Hypnosis/ Guided Imagery Department at the California Graduate Institute and works as a professor on behavioral medicine, artistic and creative psychology.

1982: Kevin McMahon
McMahon is working on the show Plaid Tidings in San Diego, CA.

1982: Wayne D. Skinner
Wayne D. Skinner is still working as the general manager of the Allen Organ Division of the Piano and Organ Center, Clay (NJ). He is also the organist at Pitcher Hill Community Church in North Syracuse (NY).
1982: Cathy Jo Coulter
Cathy Jo Coulter is currently living in Arizona and has worked as the human resources manager at Sears for the past 9 years.

1982: Danielle Ann Blanchard
Danielle Ann Blanchard currently teaches at the University of Laverne, Cuesta Community College, and Allan Hancock College in courses for acting, theatre appreciation, play production, main styles in film, visual and performing arts for elementary teachers. Danielle Ann Blanchard recently performed Madam Armfelott in A Light Night Music at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria (CA). She also has done missionary work in Africa, Israel, Mexico and Europe.
1982: David Jenkins
David got his M.A. in teaching and is now teaching ESL in the NYC public schools. He plays cello with the Greenwich Village Orchestra (www.gvo.org) and around NYC.

1982: John E. Godoy

John was appointed principal timpanist for the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra in October, 2007.

1982: Karen Hockney
Karen Hockney is still performing, teaching private piano lessons and coaching math students.

1982: Karen Hockney
Karen Hockney is still performing, teaching private piano lessons and coaching math students.

1982: Lost Alumni
  

1982: Louis Sacco
Louis Sacco is moving to New York to work as a playwright, actor and voice teacher. He has taught voice for 20 years and is on adjunct faculty at Antelope Valley College in California. He will perform in a children's telethon upon arrival in New York and then work to promote the musical The Night Before Christmas that he co-wrote with fellow staff members from the Lancaster Performing Arts Center in California.

1982: Toni H. Deaver
Deaver is currently rehearsing for an Elvis tour, show, and film. She is currently working for a business (removed comma) which works at cracking down on identity theft. She is also starting a new business aimed at taking people off the streets and giving them jobs making pillows from recycled materials.

1982: Wayne Skinner
Wayne Skinner is still working as the general manager of the Allen Organ Division of the Piano and Organ Center in Clay, New Jersey. He is also the organist at Pitcher Hill Community Church in North Syracuse, NY.

1982: William Flanigan
William Flanigan has been married for 26 years and has four children. He is now working at Walt Disney World in the Finding Nemo Musical. Flandigan is also the director, producer and choreographer of his own entertaining company.

1983: Dale Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer has been teaching at Berklee for the last 20 years as an Assistant Professor of Voice. She also is raising a daughter, who will soon be 13.

1983: Gamalia Pharms
Gamalia Pharms is currently working at the Massachussetts College of Art and Design in the Fenway. She also continues to sing and perform locally. 

1983: Paula Obuchon
Obuchon is welcoming a new grandson into her family.

1983: Denton Tarver
Tarver has been performing and teaching in New York for the past ten years. Performance credits include Grease! At the O'Neill, Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden, Beowulf at the Irish Rep, national tour of Copacabana and the International tour of West Side Story, in addition to a film appearance as an accountant in The Producers featuring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.

1983: Edward L. Korbich
Eddie played Joe Malarkey in Face The Music , an Encores! Production directed by John Rando in NYC. He also had the lead in a new musical, Top of the Heap at the New York Music Festival. He is currently performing as Scuttle the Seagull in Disney's The Little Mermaid on Broadway.

1983: Gary J. Davis
Davis currently owns his own shop where he makes and services cellos. He services the cellos of Antonov Sergey, Terry King and several Boston Symphony Orchestra players. Gary has also won multiple competitions and awards.

1983: Jack Kessler
Jack and his wife, Marcia Prager, national leaders in the Jewish Renewal Movement were in Madison, WI in November of 2007 to lead a series of Shabbaton events. Both are leaders in ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal.

1983: Kathleen Maclean
Kathleen Maclean now lives in Colorado and is temporarily retired after 24 years in the New Hampshire music education field. Her only child has entered religious lLife and is now known as Sr. Miriam, RSM (Religious Sisters of Mercy). Maclean is a choral director and teaches private piano lessons. She is currently the organist at The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, Colorado. Maclean also recently celebrated 25 years of marriage.

1983: Lone Larsen
Lone Larsen specializes in teaching the Martha Graham Technique. She is on the faculty of the Martha Graham School and Marymount Manhattan College. She recently completed a five year stay in Copenhagen working as a rehearsal director where she appeared in a movie.

1983: Lost Alumni

1983: Margaret F. Dikel
Dikel has completed the 8th edition of The Guide to Internet Job Searching. Her website, The Riley Guide continues to be one of the most popular and respected guides to Internet job searching online.

1983: Mary C. O'Donnell
Mary C. O’Donnell is actively performing and working as the Director of Institutional Giving in the Development Office at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, MA.

1983: Michelle Y. Lee

Lee has been living in New Jersey for the past 25 years and working as the Executive Vice President for a branch of Wachovia Bank.

1983: Ovidio Vargas
Ovi is the Artistic Director of the Glove Theatre in Gloversville , NY . Their Summer Season consisted of Urinetown, Baby, Buddy, High School Musical and the premiere of Red Hook.

1984: Michael Smith
Smith received his masters from Lehman College. His marching band was recently featured on a Claritin commercial and the U.S. Marine Corp awarded them the Best Band Award.

1984: Brian Farias
Brian Farias is currently residing in Raleigh, North Carolina and he  teaches music in the Wake County Public Schools. After graduating from the Conservatory, Brian received a Masters of Music  in Clarinet Performance from New England Conservatory. He is currently completing his Doctor of Musical Arts in Clarinet Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in May. Brian is also busy freelancing in the Raleigh area, teaching private lessons, and judging bands, guards, and percussion with the Atlantic Indoor Association and North Carolina Bandmasters Association.

1984: Jacqueline A. Kraus
Jacqueline A. Kraus is currently involved in voice overs, jingles and narrative work. She has been on the road touring for eight years with bands and as a soloist. She has also performed on two different Caribbean cruise lines and worked as a voice teacher for 18 years.

1984: Lost Alumni

1984: Melissa Schwartz Greenberg
Missy has lived in Chicago for the past 18 years and has raised two wonderful children, Adam, 18 and Rachael, 16. She has stayed active in the theater either performing or producing on the North Shore or in the city. She is the Suburban Coordinator for Season of Concern, which is Chicago 's version of Broadway Cares. She is an associate for The Broadway Dreams Foundation, assisting in Broadway Bootcamps for musical theater and dance held all over the country. She is the Special Events Coordinator for the Wilmette Theatre and an assistant to theater producer Stuart Oken, of Elephant Eye Theatricals.

1984: Rebecca A. Frezza
Rebecca A. Frezza is now the lead singer, guitarist and band leader of the band Big Truck, which specializes in children's music. The band recently recorded eight music videos to be aired between children's shows on PBS. Big Truck has been playing together for 5 years and has released three CD's for children ages.

1985: Donna Olson
Olson has 7 nieces and nephews, works for 4-5 companies performing throughout the year, writes for a monthly magazine, teaches students privately and continues to sing and perform regularly.

1985: Kevan Patriquin
Kevan Patriquin served as the stunt captain at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. He is currently performing in Phantom of the Opera at the Venitian Hotel.

1985: Sharon Korot McCord
McCord is currently the Director of Music at the Peabody School in Charlottesville, VA, a cantorial soloist with the Congregation Beth Israel, and the Director of The Chutzpah! Chorus, Mazal Tov Children's Chorus, and the Hallelu Band. She is also raising three children, ages 11, 12, and 14.

1985: Anne L. Nathan

Anne held several roles in Sunday in the Park with George on Broadway in the Roundabout revival with 10 people. She was also in Baby Mama , a film starring Tina Fey, and a guest star on Law & Order: Criminal Intent . Anne also was in the Ken Ludwig adaptation of An American in Paris at The Alley Theatre in Houston .

1985: Bernadette M. Horgan
Bernadette M. Horgan works as an office personnel for the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). She is also a Pappoutsakis Flute Competition Board member.

1985: Cantor Jacqueline L. Shuchat-Marx
Cantor Jacqueline Shuchat-Marx and Mark Shuchat-Marx joyfully announce the adoption of their daughter Miriam XiaoLing Leora. She was born in Sanya, Hainan Province , China on December 27, 2002 and her parents brought her home on December 15, 2007. She joins her parents, brother Harry, and two cats in Manalapan , NJ .

1985: Christine Anita Little
After graduation, Christine Anita Little received her Masters degree in dance movement therapy from Naropa University in Boulder, CO. She taught movement therapy in a hospital for nine years. After taking time away from work to start a family, she recently began teaching creative movement for children and authentic movement for adults.

1985: Joseph W. Scott
Joseph is a music instructor at Milton Academy and is registered in Suzuki guitar instruction through Grade 5. He performs with the Cape Symphony Orchestra and the Rhode Island Philharmonic.

1985: Laura Schwendinger

Schwendinger is currently an accomplished composer and Associate Professor of Composition at the Madison School of Music in Wisconsin. She is also the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

1985: Laura Schwendinger
Laura Schwendinger is currently an accomplished composer and associate professor of composition at the Madison School of Music in Wisconsin. She is also the recent recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.

1985: Lost Alumni
 

1985: Timothy Bennett
Tim recently directed a reading of a new musical called Big Fat Cat in NYC. The reading starred Bruce Vilanch, Christiane Noll, Burke Moses and Annaleigh Ashford. The music was composed by Brian Feinstein. During the summer of 2007, Tim was the associate director of a concert version of Carousel with the Boston Pops at Tanglewood.

1985: Timothy Bennett
Timothy Bennett is currently working as the Resident Director of The Lion King in Las Vegas, NV. Recently, he was the Associate Director for a production of A Little Night Music with Christine Ebersole and the Boston Pops, and last summer Tim directed and choreographed Bernstein on Broadway for the Boston Pops on tour.

1986: Carol M. Orth
Carol M. Orth received her masters in Dance Therapy from Goucher College. She currently works at John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and dances with Kinor, an Israeli folk dance company.
1986: Connie Belanger Gobeil
Connie Belanger Gobeil is currently working on her Masters in Nursing.

1986: Karen Oster
Karen Oster is currently the Chair of Performing Arts at Middlesex Community College. Her current project is directing Cabaret.

1986: Angela Hall
Angela recently performed a Gospel Concert at Mt. Moriah A.M.E. Church . The concert was also recorded live.

1986: David M. Treharne, Sr.
Currently, David M. Treharne is employed as an Administrator for the Auburn Enlarged City School District in Auburn, New York.
1986: Faith M. Lueth
Faith M. Lueth recently participated in the Eastern District Junior Treble Course Music Festival.

1986: Gail T. Whitehead
Gail T. Whitehead retired from dance 12 years ago and is currently a fitness instructor and personal trainer at Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires.

1986: Karen Oster

Karen is currently the Chair of Performing Arts at Middlesex Community College in Bedford and Lowell , MA . She is living in New Hampshire with her partner and four amazingly beautiful children.

1986: Lost Alumni


1986: Natalie Toro
Natalie is playing Madame Defarge in the new Broadway show A Tale of Two Cities.

1986: Natalie Toro
Natalie Toro is currently playing Madame DeFarge in the musical A Tale of Two Cities on Broadway. She also performed the role of Fate in North Shore Music Theatre's production of Zorba.

1986: Peter C. Ermides
Peter C. Ermides is performing in the Chicago production of Wicked.

1987: Arngod R. H. Solberg Webb
Webb recently got married on August 2, 2008.

1987: Mr. Steven Farrell
Steven Farrell received his Masters in Music Education from SUNY Potsdam in NY and is currently working on a second Masters degree. He performs jazz around the New Haven (CT), and the NY area including the New Haven Jazz Orchestra.


1987: Brian M. O'Connell
Brian M. O’Connell is the founder and director of the Sarteano Chamber Choral Conducting Workshop in Sarteano, Italy. He is currently director of choral activities at Lexington High School in Lexington, Massachusetts. He teaches graduate choral methods at The Boston Conservatory and the University of Massachusetts- where he also teaches vocal pedagogy, directs the University Choir and is an advisor to graduate choral conductors. For fifteen years, O'Connell was director of the Concert Choir at Berklee College of Music. For nine of those years he also served as chairman of the voice department. O-Connell has also served on the music faculties of Tufts, Boston University and the New England Conservatory. O'COnnell is a past president of the Massachusetts ACDA, and the first recipient of the Massachusetts ACDA Choral Excellence Award. Brian is currently teaching choral music in Massachusetts. His Sarteano Chamber Choral Conducting Workshop in Sarteano, Italy is still successful.

1987: Christine Viles Smith
Christine Viles Smith is currently teaching at an all-girls academy, Mount St. Joseph Academy, as the director of drama.



1987: Cynthia M. Tine
Cynthia opened a dance studio called Stage Left in Connecticut.

1987: David L. Smith
David L. Smith received his Masters degree in elementary special education.

1987: Diran P. Heller
Diran P. Heller is living in the Boston area. He is teaching, composing, accompanying and has been involved with several projects involving improvisational music and dance pieces.

1987: Duncan M. Rogers
Duncan wrote and directed the short film Bust starring Dan Lauria for the Big Island Film Festival. He also wrote and directed The Reader , a short film starring Elizabeth Franz for Freshwater Films and the DaReel International Festival in Australia . He is currently working on The Ables House is Green for the Garden State Festival in NJ, and Bluff , his latest short film in production.

1987: Jack Noseworthy
Jack Noseworthy plays a nefarious character whose actions in the opening scenes help hatch the plot of the sci-fi thriller, The Surrogates, a Bruce Willis flick now filming in Boston.

1987: Keith Crook
Keith Crook is currently teaching part time at the University of Southern Maine.

1987: Kimberley Lord Curtis
Kim has a small Public Relations company in the Boston area. She is currently working with alumnus Jack Noseworthy '87 while he is filming Surrogates with Bruce Willis in Boston.

1987: Leah Peterson Murphy
Leah Peterson Murphy received her real estate license and is working part time at a day care and as a full time mother.



1987: Lois A. Francello
Lois A. Francello has started teaching voice lessons at her own private studio using the Estill technique.

1987: Lost Alumni

1987: Mark Nemeskal
Mark Nemeskal recently performed in a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Yeamon of the Guard with The Bostonians. He also performed in June on the Merrimack with the Essex County Chamber Music Players.

1987: Patricia Brosnihan-Ledoux
Patricia Brosnihan-Ledoux opened a second location of her dance studio Patricia Brosman Dance Center, Inc. in Grafton (MA).

1987: Paula Savastano
Paula Savastano is currently located in Philadelphia, PA, teaching at Drexel University's Music Industry program. Paula is also working as a freelance flute and piccolo player throughout the Philadelphia and New York City area and owns her own licensing and royalty consulting business.

1987: Valerie A. Brewster
Valerie A. Brewster is currently teaching in her own private voice studio as well as actively singing in church. The arts runs in her family-her daughter is studying voice and her son is active in acting.

1988: Diana Longo
Diana Longo founded Femme, an organization that promotes financial awareness. She is also employed by Next Financial Group, Inc. as an Investment Advisor.

1988: Pam Klappas Pariseau
Pam Klappas Pariseau just opened a production of Our Town at the Barrow Street Theatre an Off-Broadway venue in West Village (NYC).  She is also working on a Simon Gray play called The Late Middle Class.

1988: David A. Benoit
David A. Benoit is currently starring in the Vegas production of Avenue Q.  David performed as Thenardier in the national tour of Les Miserables and also appeared in Russia in a production of The Captain's Daughter. David played Nicky/Trekkie Monster/Bear in Avenue Q on Broadway, and also appeared in the First Class National Tour of All Shook Up..

1988: David Benoit
David played Nicky/Trekkie Monster/Bear in Avenue Q on Broadway, and also appeared in the First Class National Tour of All Shook Up!.

1988: Henry Enrique Menendez
Henry sang with the Men's Chorus of NYC under Director Joanna Gleason at Carnegie Hall.

1988: Kevin McGlynn
Kevin is playing a lead in the Chicago and Reno productions of Forbidden Broadway . He is also performing in the First Class National Tour of All Shook Up! .

1988: Lost Alumni

1988: Robert Holden
Robert Holden is now coordinator of vocal activities and co-director of the Opera Theater at the University of Central Arkansas. This past November, Holden produced and starred in the world premiere of Lori Laitman's first opera, The Scarlet Letter with libretto by poet David Mason. It was a huge success with many regional and national opera companies lining up to place it in production. Holden and the University of Central Arkansas were responsible for the commissioning of the opera. Opening night remarks were given by Dana Gioia, former director of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a post he vacated in January of this year. While producing the show and preparing the chorus, Holden also created the role of Chillingworth.

1989: Ann Sweeten
Since graduating, Ann Sweeten has become a very successful recording artist. She owns her own record label and works as a recording artist, composer and pianist. In September 2008, she received the Steinway Artist Distinction Award.

1989: Catherine E. Connor-Moen
Catherine E. Connor-Moen is currently working as the Director of Fine Arts for Norwood Public Schools and is the Chairperson of Micca Choral Festival.

1989: Christine MacInally
Christine's performing arts studio, The Performance Factory, presented their showcase at Waltham High School in April.

1989: Lost Alumni

1989: Paul Finocchiaro
Paul Finocchiaro is currently directing plays and musicals throughout the academic year and summers.

1989: William H. Russell
H.Russell is a popular and regular performer at the Raven Coffeehouse in Port Huron, Michigan.

1990: Edward Reisert
Reisert is still teaching choir in Bedford, NY.

1990: Zoia Bologovsky
Bologovsky is the principal second violinist for the Nashua Symphony and is married with two children.

1990: Daniel Trippett
Daniel Trippett and his wife are starring in a dance and theater show at the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas, NV.

1990: Diane Cushing
Diane, The Nashua Symphony Association's director of choral activities, was the featured soprano at the NSA's chamber music program in April 2008, at the Dion Center at Rivier College .

1990: Elizabeth Reardon
Elizabeth Reardon is currently active as a freelance musician and is also playing with the Plymouth Philharmonic in Massachusetts.

1990: Janet Saia-Feld
Janet is currently performing Leonard Bernstein's Mass with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Marin Aslop. Janet has performed in the musical Cats throughout Europe, the national Tour of Carousel, and Phantom of the Opera since 2002.

1990: Lost Alumni

1990: Pamela S. Kalski
In 1990, Pam S. Kalski moved to New York City where she continued acting, and accepting roles for New York Film Academy students. In 1992, Pam began working with Second Stage Theatre on shows such as One Shoe Off by Tina Howe, Time On Fire by Evan Handler and Loose Knit by Theresa Rebeck. In 1995, she began working with Richard Frankel Productions On and Off-Broadway, which included shows like Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Sound of Music, Forever Tango and STOMP. Kalski is currently working with a playwright to develop and produce his catalogue of work. During the day, she works as a Legal assistant with a prominent New York City law firm.

1990: Thomas Culcasi
Culcasi is currently the keyboard sub in the musicals Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys in Las Vegas. Additionally, he is a part time gondolier driver at the Venetian Hotel where he sings various arias.

1990: Veronique-Anne Epiter
Epiter plans to start up her vocal technician service in the near future and just opened her own art gallery at her artist studio space.

1991: Andrea Salerno Heineman
Heineman's sons are now 6 and 8 years old. Additionally, she has started taking dance again and remains very active.

1991: Garry McPherson
McPherson is now a band and orchestra teacher at Mt. Carmel High School in CA. He also performs in the San Diego area.

1991: Joseph Abatecola
Abatecola is expecting the addition of a son to his family.

1991: Leo M. Greene
Greene is currently working at Forest Hill Cemetery.

1991: Maria Ann Tzianabos
Tzianabos received an M.F.A. degree in interdisciplinary arts from Goddard College in VT.

1991: Spring Gross
Gross is currently living in Los Angeles as a successful recording artist. She released the album Spring: Spring Fever, which consists of spiritual, soulful folk fused with sacred chanting.

1991: Spring Gross
Spring Gross presented a recurring acoustic series featuring herself and special guests at The Talking Stick Coffee Lounge in Venice(CA).



1991: Alice Wu
Alice Wu is currently teaching at Harvard University.



1991: Andrew Spang
Andrew was named the 2007-2008 Outstanding Music Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Music Educators Association. In a busy year, Andrew has guest conducted and adjudicated several All County and Band Festival events throughout Maryland, composed Centennial March , a newly commissioned concert march for young band, and played tuba and bass trombone with the Soulful Symphony and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras. His chamber ensemble, the Lyric Brass Quintet, will release their third CD, Ancient Noëls , this fall. Andrew remains the Director of Music at Westminster United Methodist Church . Andrew lives in Westminster , Maryland , with his wife Laura Baker '92, son Ben (7) and daughter Sophie (4).

1991: Christopher W. Swan
Christopher W. Swan is currently working part time for a public relations firm.



1991: James D. Keene
James D. Keene runs his own dance company, the Earthwalk Dance Company in California. In July they performed a world premiere of a full-length modern ballet entitled Poisoned. This work surrounds incidents and the aftermath of a partial Nuke meltdown that happened in Chatsworth, CA on July 13, 1959.

1991: James D. Keene
James will be performing with The Santa Monica Contemporary Ballet in an “out-of-this-world” presentation of The Nutcracker Suite Electronique composed and arranged by Seattle composer, musician and writer Brete Thomas. Performances will run from December 18th through the 21st.

1991: Kristine B. Marchus
Kristine B. Marchus is currently teaching ballet at Sonoma Ballet Conservatory in California. She also teaches hip hop, jazz, modern and yoga at Santa Rosa Junior College in Northern California. She is married to Brian Marchus and raising her two and a half-year-old-son.

1991: Michael Susko
Michael Susko is the choreographer for New Bedford Festival Theatre's production of 42nd Street. He also choreographed The Boston Conservatory’s 2008 production of 42nd Street.

1991: Sophia Stratakis Huling
Sophia sings with the Boston Byzantine Choir, a group that sings Byzantine chant in English in worship settings, concerts and on recordings. They expect to release their fourth recording, Thy Resurrection , which features music for Pascha (Easter), by the end of April 2008. The CD will be available through St. Mary Orthodox Church in Cambridge , MA . The choir also participated in The Ascending Voice, a symposium of a capella sacred music at Pepperdine University in June 2007. Sophia personally sang for George and Barbara Bush at a dinner in 2002 at which they received the Athenagoras Human Rights Award from the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, a group affiliated with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Sophia is currently a freelance writer and editor in NYC.

1991: Stephanie E. Stanford
Stephanie E. Stanford was recently named the assistant director of Fusion Works Dance Company.

1991: Torrie J. Allen
Torrie J. Allen was named the general manager of the Anchorage Opera Company in Anchorage, Alaska.

1992: Jennifer Pacht-Goodman

Pacht-Goodman works as a music therapist for people with autism. She continued her education at NYU after finishing her degree at The Boston Conservatory.

1992: Susan Goforth
Susan Goforth is currently is living in NY and working as voice talent for Tellme, an informational system provided by Microsoft.  She is also an actress with Pendragon Pictures.



1992: Adam Dannheisser
Adam Dannheisser appeared in Cymbeline and The Coast of Utopia: Part Two- Shipwreck as Karl Marx, both at Lincoln Center on Broadway.  Dannheisser played Heartfree in The Provok'd Wife at the American Repertory Theatre.  He also performed as the husband and bartender in the First Class National Tour of Contact and as the Student cover in Proof on Broadway.

1992: Andrew Giordano
Andrew is performing in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with the Reagle Players. In August, he will perform in Les Miserables in Ogunquit, ME.

1992: Angela D. Christian
Angela D. Christian starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Woman In White and as the character of Miss Dorothy Brown in Thoroughly Modern Millie on Broadway.

1992: Mary L. Colarusso
Mary L. Colarusso appeared with the Civic Symphony Orchestra and has sung the national anthem at Patriots and Celtics games. She also performed for George and Barbara Bush at the Bush and Clinton Katrina Relief event.

1992-93: Omayra Amaya
Amaya performed a duet with Steve Martin in the Hollywood Film, The Pink Panther II, which premieres January 2009. Amaya 's dance company along with Flamenco Sin Limites presented La Sobremesa, featuring music by Roberto Castellon at The Players Theatre in NYC during November 2008.

1993/1997: Silvio dos Santos
Silvio is an assistant professor of Musicology at Youngstown State University . He also received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and a B.M. from Faculdade Santa Marcelina, São Paulo , Brazil . Silvio dos Santos received the 2002 Paul A. Pisk Prize from the American Musicological Society for his paper Ascription of Identity: the Bild Motif and the Character of Lulu . Other awards include the 2002 Hollace Anne Schafer Memorial Award for his paper Berg, Alwa, and the Dialectics of Love from the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, First Prize Dissertation Fellowship from the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University and a research grant from the New York-based Max Kade Foundation to travel to Vienna . Dr. dos Santos is also a classical guitarist and has given solo and chamber music recitals throughout New England and Brazil .

1993: Noah B. Racey
Racey is running rehearsals as Associate Director for High School Musical 2 at Atlanta's Fox Theatre. He was the first choreographer hired by Tommy Tune for Turn of the Century at Goodman Theatre slated for Broadway this summer. Noah will begin rehearsals in June for a new Cirque de Soleil production in 2009.

1993: Noel Belanger Smith
Noel Belanger Smith has sung in major motion pictures out in LA and a video game that released in France. She has been signed to Futura Productions and has released a CD titled De-Senseless. Noel Belanger Smith also works as a private vocal teacher. One of her past students played Maureen on the National Tour of Rent.

1993: Ruben Gaztambide

Gaztambide is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada.

1993: Alejandro L. Madrid
Madrid released a book entitled, Sounds of the Modern Nation: Music, Culture, and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico. His book was the winner of the International Casa de las Americanas Musicology Prize.

1993: Alejandro Madrid
Alejandro Madrid is currently the assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. After graduating from The Boston Conservatory, Alejandro received graduate degrees from SUNY/Purchase and the University of North Texas and obtained his Ph.D. in musicology and cultural Studies from Ohio State University. In 2005 he received the prestigious Casa de las Americas Musicology Prize for his first book, entitled Los sonidos de la nacion moderna (the English version will be published this fall by Temple University Press). His second book, Nor-tec Rifa! Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World, has been recently published by Oxford University Press. In 2007, Madris, co-edited a volume entitled Postnational Musical Identities.

1993: Christopher J. DeNofrio
Christopher J. DeNofrio is a former member of the Ballet Theatre of Boston. He was the 1997 soloist with Louisville Ballet.

1993: Christopher Morandi
Chris Morandi performed in the Berlin, Germany production of Les Miserables. Chris performed in The Three Musketeers in Berlin, Germany and is currently the Orchestra Leader and singer in Titanic in Germany.

1993: Danica Connors
Danica Connors performed in Goodspeed Opera Company's production of the new musical, Lizzie Borden and Forbidden Broadway.

1993: Jill Feingold
Jill Feingold is still the director of dance at the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, MA and has a one year old son, William. As director, she teaches dance and choreography technique to students in grades 6-12. She is also overseeing the Citydance program at the Boston Ballet during its 10th Anniversary.

1993: Katrina Steinberg Locklin
Katrina Steinberg Locklin is currently expecting another baby.

1993: William F. Stadelmeyer
William Stadelmeyer is currently living in Georgia, where he teaches in the public school system and plays in the Oasis Brass Quintet with other Massachusetts natives.

1994/1995: Joanna Gaughan

Gaughan is still teaching while balancing life with her four children.

1994: I-Hsing Liao
Liao is currently working as a private tutor.

1994: Jennifer L. Zimmerman
Zimmerman recently finished a production of Les Miserables in NYC.

1994: Sharon Montella
Montella is working on a new dance exchange program in NYC.

1994: Adina Aaron
Adina has appeared with the New York City Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, and the Utah Festival Opera. She has performed and recorded Aida with Franco Zefferelli. Ms. Aaron also performed Sister Rose in the New York Premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at City Opera. Recent concert engagements have included Mimi with the Newton Symphony, Knoxville: Summer of 1915 by Samuel Barber, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Aaron was an apprentice at the Santa Fe Opera Company. She has made a number of recordings, including collaborations with composers William Maselli and Stefania de Kenessey.

1994: Albert Tiu
Albert Tiu is an Assistant Professor of Piano at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore.

1994: Fu-Rong Gardner

Gardner is currently teaching voice at the South Shore Conservatory in Duxbury, MA.

1994: Gina M. DePaoli
Gina is a music educator in Waltham Public Schools, teaching general music in Kindergarten through grade 5. She plays clarinet in various ensembles and is a cofounder of Patschwork, more details can be found at www.ginadepaoli.com.

1994: Ichiro Harada
Ichiro Harada completed the Diploma in teaching at the University of Auckland's Faculty of Education and is now teaching dance at Howick College in New Zealand. For several years, Harada had his own dance company in Sydney. His work has been shown in Australia, Japan and Russia.

1994: Jeffrey Gerodias
Jeffrey Gerodias is a member of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. He recently won the Benois de la Dance Prize for best male dancer. After leaving the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Gerodias joined the faculties at the Ailey School and The Joffrey Ballet School. He also worked with Dallas Black Dance Company and taught for their summer intensive program. Currently, Gerodias is on faculty at the California Institute of the Arts, Pasadena Dance Theater, The Colburn School and a guest artist with San Diego Dance Theater.

1994: Jennifer L. Zimmerman
Jennifer appeared on Broadway in Les Misérables as Fantine.

1994: Laura Duncan
Laura Duncan appeared in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at San Diego's Old Globe, directed by Jack O'Brien, and on Broadway. She was also seen in North Shore's new musical Tom Jones and as Venus in Cupid and Psyche at the John Houseman Theatre in New York City.

1994: Laura Marie Duncan
Laura is performing in the Lincoln Center revival production of South Pacific in the ensemble.

1994: Marco Madian
Marco worked consistently after graduation through a number of jobs and locations. He portrayed the Prince of Gypsies with the Pocono Renaissance Faire, Prince Prospero in Edgar Allen Poe's Mask of the Red Death , and Nicholas Nickelby in Charles Dickens' Christmas Village . Marco has also worked at the Music Mansion in Pigeon Forge, TN and with Mel Tillis in Branson , MO. Marco eventually ended up in Las Vegas where he performed in many shows. He has taken a break from show business and is now a senior sales admin rep. He has a wonderful six year old child and is currently working on his massage license and hopes to become a physical therapist.

1994: Michael Lawson
Michael Lawson is the executivedirector of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. The orchestra is comprised of Boston Conservatory students from the United States, Canada and South America. Lawson does the programming, fundraising and runs the organization. He is also a conductor, plays in a jazz ensemble and used to run the New Jersey Chamber Music Society.

1994: Robert Couturier
Robert Couturier is teaching brass music and art in Manchester & Concord, NH. He also teaches fourth and fifth and 5th grade band.

1994: Tamara Harper
Tamara Harper is working at Ivy Realty in Georgia.

1994: Tamara Watson Harper
Tamara is now a realtor in Georgia .

1994;1996: Sean N. Murphy
Sean N. Murphy is still actively teaching dance and theater in the public schools. He also teaches for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and freelances for opera companies.

1995: A.J. Teshin
A.J. just released a CD in August entitled The Kurt Weill Project, a pop and classical arrangement of Weill's music sung in German and English.

1995: Jimena Galindo Bermejo
Jimena Galindo Bermejo has presented her thesis show, Crossing Over, an interactive multimedia installation/performance, at the Pozen Center for Interrelated Media in Boston (March 2009).



1995: Matthew Walton
Walton has been featured in numerous off-Broadway, television and film projects. His most recent project was a supporting role in the movie Burn After Reading starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt.

1995: Scott Tarantino
Tarantino founded a Zimbabwe style ensemble in his elementary school for 4^th and 5^th graders. He is also the President of the New England Chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association.

1995: Christie Tipton-Poirier
Christie Tipton-Poirier is now married and raising her four musically-inclined children.

1995: Gina Beck
Gina Beck is currently teaching at Emerson College and Suffolk University. She also runs her own private studio and raises two children.

1995: Goergia Bailey Ambarian
Georiga Bailey Ambarian owns the 3rd National Title of World Cabaret Champions with her dance partner Eric Luna. She has also been featured on the dancing shows Dancing with the Stars and Superstars of Dance.

1995: Janelle Tedesco
Janelle gave birth to a baby boy, Anthony Robert Tedesco on September 18th, 2008.

1995: Jennifer Vaden Barth
Jennifer Vaden Barth is currently working for Google in research and special initiatives. She is married to an actor and writer and is raising her children.

1995: Jimena Galindo Bermejo
Jimena showed two video pieces at the MassArt 2009 MFA Candidates' Midway Show on Friday, July 11, 2008.

1995: Karin Connally
Karin’s dance company, which she operates with her mother and fellow alumna Susan Connally ’67, The San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary.

1995: Lori Erbes
Erbes is currently teaching private lessons in MA.

1995: Matthew Lashey
Matthew Lashey is currently performing as a swing in Thoroughly Modern Millie and also performed in 42nd Street, both on Broadway.

1995: Michael Grayman
Michael Grayman performed as Eddie in the National Tour of Mamma Mia.

1995: Valerie Moranto
Valerie Moranto performed in the production of Les Miserables at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, ME during September 2008. The cast included fellow alumni John Farchione ’08, Andrew Giordano ’92 and Kristen Sweeney ’07.

1996: Michelle Pereira
Pereira continues to appear in commercials and is starting her own production company. She is also working to further the education of Portugese, the sixth largest language in the world.

1996: Dean Marcellana
Dean Marcellana has upcoming gigs in the Gran Muray Jazz Festival, and the Charlestina Wine and Jazz Festival. He also plays with various salsa, blues and jazz groups. Dean Marcellana is also raising two children with his wife Jennifer Anderson '99.

1996: Tanya Wills
Tanya Wills is currently living in New York City and spending time with her 9 month old baby boy.

1996: Amanda Yesnowitz
Amanda Yesnowitz is a faculty member at New York University. She has also had an extensive career as a lyricist and has been a Jonathan Larsen Winner, Drama Guild Fellow and an Artist in Residence at the Hangar Theatre. She was a lyricist in By The Numbers, with music by Brian Feinstein, at a reading with Chip Zien and Liz Larsen at the Players Theatre in NYC, as well as Beau Geste with music by Brad Ross, an original musical about Pierre L’Enfant. Yesnowitz also sang in No Looking Back with the Boston Pops, conducted by Keith Lockhart.

1996: Andrew Hoff
Andrew is the President of New Dramatists: Dedicated to New American Playwrights in NYC.

1996: Andrew J. DeCorleto
Andrew J. DeCorleto is the artistic director of Brokenwatch Theatre Company, a production company that was founded by Conservatory alumni Andrew DeCorleto '96, Jeremy Koch '96 and Andrew Hoff '96. DeCorleto directed the production of Split, which was performed at the Lion Theatre in New York City, and a reading series title Quarterlife by Sam Forman.

1996: Drew DeCorleto, Andrew Hoff, Jeremy Koch
Drew, Jeremy Koch ’96 and Andrew Hoff’s ‘96 Broken Watch Theatre Company presented The Framer by Edward Allan Baker, which was the last show to play in the Michael Weller Theatre before closing its doors.

1996: Heather I. Lipson
Heather I. Lipson appeared as a ballerina in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.  In 2005, Heather danced in a short film called West Bank Story, which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film, Live Action in 2007. She is currently in Florida with Palm Beach Opera, dancing in their production of Thais.

1996: James V. Baker
James V. Baker is currently freelancing around the Boston area.

1996: Jennifer DePalo
Jennifer is a company member of Buglisi Dance Theater which premiered Jacqulyn Buglisi's newest ballet, Interplay No. 9 with live music & acclaimed BDT repertoire on Monday, May 19 at the Howard Gilman Performance Space in the Baryshnikov Arts Center with fellow alumna Junichi Fukuda '02.

1996: Jeremy M. Koch
Jeremy M. Koch was recently involved with the reading series, Quarterlife, by Sam Forman. It was directed by Andrew DeCorleto '96. Other recent credits include The Good Road, by Robert Lewis Vaughn, Splendid, by J. Holtham, The Kidney, by Hunt Holman, and the world premiere of Safety Net, by Christopher Kyle.

1996: Kristen Freitag
Kristen Freitag is still happily married and busy teaching and playing.

1996: Laura Champine
Champine has joined the Cowen Group, Inc. firm as a Senior Analyst covering the consumer sector of the company.

1996: Lilia Gouarian
Lilia Gouarian is actively involved in teaching children and adults dancing and Latin dance.

1996: Stephen Brumble, Jr.
Stephen is the Secretary of New Dramatists: Dedicated to New American Playwrights and had a supporting role in Two Thirds Home.

1996: Sylvie Zakarian
Currently, Sylvie Zakarian teaches percussion for Harvard University, The Westwood Music Prodigy Program, and the Musical Suite in Newburyport, MA.

1997: Adrienne Walker Dickson
Adrienne Walker Dickson is completing her Ph.D. studies at the University of Nebraska. She is an adjunct professor at York College and Concordia University. Dickson also played Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking, which won the National Opera Association Best Production award.

1997: Gwen Wendy Melkonian
Melkonian is featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Meet the Actress article. She is currently playing the role of Lola in the musical Damn Yankees at the Aurora Theatre.

1997: Richard Johnson
Johnson was invited to play a recital at Delta State University. Additionally, he continues to work extensively with jazz icons such as Wynton Marsalis, Arturo Sandoval, Vanessa Rubin, Bobby Watson, and Herbie Hancock. He also completed residencies with Jazz Aspen and the Thelonious Monk Institute.

1997: Yo-el Cassell
Yo-el Cassell performed as Mini-Meyer in Urban Nutcracker for the seventh year. Yo-el Cassell is currently working for the Boston Ballet and Emerson College. Most notably, he received a Tony Award for his work on the Pinocchio National Tour.



1997: B. Thomas Blodgett
B. Thomas Blodgett recently published his first book,The Jende Book of Sharpening Double Hollow Ground Reed Knives through his company, Jende Industries, LLC. He is also giving seminars on the same subject at places such as USC Thornton and Ohio State University at Bowling Green and Oboe Works in Manhattan.




1997: D. Lauren Webb Powells
D. Lauren Webb Powells is currently working in commercials and voiceovers. She also has a new addition to her family, a baby boy named Spencer.

1997: Megan Sharp
Megan Sharp performed in an art song recital at South Church in Andover, MA accompanied by Lisa DeSiro '97 during November 2002. Featured works included pieces by Haydn, Schubert, Debussy, Brahms, Argent and Rossini. She is also singing in the Connecticut Early Music Festival in New London, CT.

1997: Meng-Ngee Lipson
Meng-Ngee Lipson is coaching the Asian Youth Orchestra and will be touring Asia with them in August.

1997: Nancy Iwasa Bartlett
Nancy Iwasa Bartlett is currently working at Public School USD259 as a Piano Technician and is busy raising her four children.

1997: Nancy Iwasa Bartlett
Nancy and Michael welcomed their fourth child into the world on July 14, 2008. Their son's name is Andrew Peter Bartlett.

1997: Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson is performing as a jazz pianist. He was invited to play a recital at Delta State University. He continues to work extensively with jazz icons such as Wynton Marsalis, Arturo Sandoval, Vanessa Rubin, Bobby Watson, and Herbie Hancock. Currently he works to educate youth across America. He has recently completed residencies with Jazz Aspen and the Thelonious Monk Institute. His Reach AFAR ''Jazz to Hip-Hop'' programs have been extremely popular in Atlanta schools. He is also the former music director for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks.

1997: Sadie Soto
Sadie Soto is the Director of New Friends Through Dance at the Top Center for Dance Education.

1997: Wendy Clark
Wendy Clark teaches strings, chorus and general music to Westborough, MA public school children in grades four through six. She continues to give flute performances and private flute lessons.

1998: Anthony Speciale, II
Anthony Speciale is currently serving as the associate artistic director at the Classic Stage Company in NYC. He recently directed productions The Good Person of Sezuan and Romeo and Juliet.



1998: Aiko Seaman
Aiko Seaman continues to run the successful Aiko Seaman Ballet Studio in Kyoto, Japan. Seaman continues to live in Kyoto, Japan with her husband. She dances freelance for several Japanese companies.

1998: Brook Masters
Brook Masters performed in The Bakkhai at the HERE Arts Center in New York City.



1998: Craig Rehnke
Craig Rehnke just finished Naked Boys Singing Off-Broadway.



1998: Enrique Haneine
Enrique was in Boston during the first week of April 2008. He taught a class at Berklee and performed at Sculler's Jazz Club.

1998: Eric J. Bermani
Eric J. Bermani is currently serving as director of music and organist at Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Manchester (NH).



1998: Jasper C. Grant
Jasper is the Musical Director of the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina's Fiddler on the Roof.

1998: Jesse Scott
Jesse Scott and his band, Hot for Teacher, recently played at the Rockin' the Rivers Festival in Montana.

1998: Katherine Digby
Katherine Digby is currently teaching modern dance for musical theater majors at The Boston Conservatory. Digby's dance troupe, Digby Dance, recently performed in Stars at Night, presented by the Greensboro Ballet in Greensboro, NC. They also performed in Seeds & Studies at Green Street Studios in Cambridge, MA.

1998: Kelly Williams
Kelly Williams is a member of Who's Who and the Historical Society.

1998: Kenneth Glass
Kenneth Glass danced in the national tour of Hairspray.



1998: Leah Kelley
Leah Kelley finished her degree in mechanical engineering and is now obtaining a Masters degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Thechnology (MIT).

1998: Patricia Leonard
Patricia Leonard is the director of institutional relations at the Metropolitan Opera House. She has had an active performance calendar, performing at Carnegie Hall in 2004 and Venice, Italy in 2008. She recently returned from Seville, Spain, where she was working as a producer and composer for music festivals.

1998: Roman Placek
Roman Placek is the artistic director of Golden Mountain Summer, an international chamber music summer school in the Czech Republic, now in its fourth year.

1998: Todd Lattimore
Todd Lattimore teaches at Dancers Inc. Workshop and Competition. He also just finished performing La Cage Aux Follie in Vero Beach, FL and is going to be playing the role of Bobby in A Chorus Line in his hometown in NY.

1999: Conchita Belisle
Belisle had a baby girl September 26, 2007. Additionally she has done some session singing for Arrested Development, and other films/ TV projects.

1999: Jennifer Anderson
Jennifer Anderson recently performed in a production of Turandot with the Columbus Opera.  She will be performing with the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra and has been an active member of the group Columbus Women in Music. Anderson also teaches at Kenyan College. She is raising two children with her husband, Dean Marellana '96.



1999: Barrett Hall
Barrett Hall is currently on location in the south working on a true-story film set in the Civil War era.



1999: Barrett Hall
Hall played the lead role of Roger in the first regional professional production of RENT in June of 2008. His film Finale is receiving critical acclaim on the indie film festival circuit and this spring he will host a new travel program called High Road Low Road for the Bravo network.

1999: Booth Daniels

Daniels and fellow alumnus Pat Frankfort '99 are playing at Caroline’s on Broadway Comedy Club in NYC on January 19th.

1999: Chad Kimball
Chad starred in the new musical Memphis in the role of Huey. The show opened September 3, 2008 at La Jolla Playhouse in CA.

1999: Colleen McGrath
Colleen McGrath performed in a recital at First United Church of Corning, NY. Previously she has performed with opera companies across the United States including Des Moines Metro Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera North and Opera New England. She is represented by Wade Artist Management in New York City.

1999: Dawn Derow
Dawn Derow is taking classes at The School for Film and Television and is also busy auditioning. In May 2010 Derow will head to Williamsburg, Virginia as the lead singer in The "Cirque" show called Imaginique at Busch Gardens. She will also be an ensemble dancer in their Elvis show. Last year, she spent the winter in London, England studying acting at The Method Studio, and performed the role of Maria in Twelfth Night at a local fringe theater in London. 

1999: Gretchen Goldsworthy
Gretchen Goldsworthy performed as Grizabella in the First Class National Tour's production of Cats and in the Worcester Foothills Theatre Company's production of Beehive, where she sang the songs of Connie Francis, Lulu and Janis Joplin. Goldsworthy has a business degree from Salem State College and previously worked for Liberty Mutual Group.

1999: Kelly Corcoran
Kelly Corcoran is currently working as the assistant director of the Nashville Symphony. She is also teaching voice and instrumental conducting at Tennessee State University.

1999: Kelly Corcoran
Kelly is running in a marathon and raising money to support the music education programs of the Nashville Symphony.

1999: Kolina Janneck
Kolina Janneck was recently seen as Bebe Benzenheimer in A Chorus Line at the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY. She has also toured Europe with Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies, performed in 42nd Street on Broadway and danced in New York's Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

1999: Patrick Frankfort
Frankfort and fellow alumus Booth Daniels '99 are playing at Caroline’s on Broadway Comedy Club in NYC on January 19th.

1999: Richard Cimmento
Richard Cimmento is married to alumna Christy Orabuena '00 and living in California.

1999: Robert Thorp
Robert Thorp's group, Synergy Brass Quintet, will be in residence at the Chamber Music Festival of San Miguel de Allende.  Students from the United States will have the opportunity to travel to San Miguel and receive instruction from the members of Synergy, as well as gain valuable experience preparing and performing.



1999: Robert Thorp
Thorp’s successful group Syngery Brass Quintet performed a series of Showcases at the NYC Hilton on Saturday, January 10^th 2009.

1999: Todd Shilhanek
Todd Shilhanek was appointed an instructor of composition for this year at Temple University. He has just finished his DMA in music composition and technology and has a six-month-old son.

1999;2001: Andrew Sorg
Andrew Sorg is currently performing with the Atlantic Brass Quintet and the Iris Orchestra.

2000: Claire Smith
Smith is on the faculty of several schools in Manhattan, a member of an active string quartet and piano quartet which perform numerous times throughout the year, and this past summer she played with the Lake Placid Sinfonietta. Additionally, she enjoys living in Brooklyn with her boyfriend and two dogs.

2000: Erin Davie
Erin Davie is currently performing the role of Anne in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music at The White Plains Performing Arts Center, which began in March 2009.



2000: Joel Moore
Moore is currently teaching at Lewis University, Benedictine University and Prairie State University all located in the Chicago, Illinois area. He is also performing with the Joel Moore Quartet, which formed in 2005.

2000: Joseph Oneschuk, Jr.
Oneschuk was the recipient of the 2007 Yale University Distinguished Music Educator Award. He is bringing his honors jazz ensemble to New Orleans to help rebuild with Habitat for Humanity in the musician village.

2000: Antony Zwerdling
Antony moved to Washington D.C. in 2004 and received his D.M.A. in 2007 from Shenandoah Conservatory. He is currently singing with Washington National Opera and Washington Bach Consort.

2000: Casey Hill
Since graduation Casey has been on both the National and European tours of Fosse (starring Ben Vereen and Ruthie Henshall). She played Cassandra on the National tour of Cats and is currently the Swing/Brenda understudy on the National tour of the Twyla Tharp/Billy Joel musical Movin' Out.

2000: Christopher Carfizzi
Carfizzi will be playing the role of Rotelli in the York Theater Company's developmental reading of Yank! A New Musical by Joseph and David Zellnik.

2000: Christy Orabuena
Christy Orabuena married Richard Cimmento '99 and is living in California. She is the head of the drama department at her alma mater, West High School, CA.

2000: Claire L. Smith
Claire L. Smith is a sub for the Broadway show, Beauty and the Beast. She is also a freelance musician with various orchestras including the Connecticut Grand Opera, One World Symphony and Astoria Music Society. She also teaches at several music schools such as Opus 118 in Harlem and Center for Strings. She is also an active freelancer in New York City. Currently, Smith is on the faculty of several schools in Manhattan. She is a member of an active string quartet and piano quartet which perform numerous times throughout the year and this past summer she played with the Lake Placid Sinfonietta.

2000: Darren Dunstan
Darren performed in Does This Show Make Me Look Fat at the Duplex, New York 's Legendary Piano Bar and Cabaret.

2000: Dominic A. Nolfi
Dominic A. Nolfi performed as Johnny in the film musical Zombie Prom with RuPaul. He also performed as Pre-B’way in Jersey Boys at the La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Des McAnuff.

2000: Edward Juvier
Edward Juvier performed the role of the Engineer in Miss Saigon at the Forestburgh Playhouse in New Hampshire. He also performed in Triumph of Love with Any Minute Now Productions and Les Miserables on Broadway.  In addition to performing, Edward also directed Always...Patsy Cline at Forestburgh Playhouse in New York.

2000: Edward W. Hightower
Edward W. Hightower was an understudy in Berkeley Repertory Theater's new work, Menocchio, in Fall 2002. He also directed a production of The Mikado in Vallejo, CA.

2000: Erik A. Warme
Erik A. Warme served in the United States Army Europe Band. He was promoted to Sergeant and has toured Europe. The band performed in Moscow in the Kremlin and Red Square. He also won a trumpet position with the United States Army Europe (USAEUR Band) in Heidelberg, Germany. Erik also works for S.E. Shires Co., a brass instrument maker in Boston, and does freelance work.

2000: Erin Davie
Erin is featured in the documentary Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway . The film documents the making of the Broadway musical, Grey Gardens .

2000: Jaimie B. Kelton
Jaimie  B. Kelton performed in Greenwillow at the York Theatre in New York City.



2000: Kristina R. Nilles
Kristina R. Nilles is the education officer at The Birdwell Theatre in London, England.

2000: Lindsey A. Warner
Lindsey A. Warner is performing in the Rub-A-Dub Productions show, Slut at The American Theatre in New York City. Warner performed in Quarter Life Crisis, Upstairs at Rose's Turn.

2000: Mauri Tetpreault
Mauri Tetpreault was recently married and performed in the production of The Bartered Bride with OperaBoston. She is also running her own private studio.

2000: Patrick Wroge
Patrick Wroge is currently freelancing and teaching saxophone. He has also released an original album.

2000: Sherrill V. Gow
Sherrill V. Gow moved to London after graduation and immediately began working as the assistant director on Off-West End and fringe theatre productions. In 2005, she cofounded Occam's Razor Theatre Company with fellow Boston Conservatory alumna Kristina Nilles '00. They have produced four productions in London's Off-West End. At the beginning of 2007, Gow was appointed associate director of the King's Head Theatre, where she has worked both as a director and assistant director. She is currently working on the U.K. premiere of the award-winning Canadian play Cherry Docs, to be performed at the King's Head Theatre in 2010.

2000: Yi Ran Chen
Yi Ran Chen is currently performing with Ballet Hispanico and the Boston Ballet. 

2000: Yi Ran Chen
Chen is currently residing in New York City and working as a realtor.

2001: Benjie Randall
Benjie Randall will be performing in the world premiere of The Gershwins: an American in Paris as Pierre at the Alley Theatre in Houston, TX. He also just wrote, produced and recorded a self-title album, Benjie Randall, which will be available on iTunes.



2001: Jacque Wilson
Jacque Wilson is currently performing in John Corliano's oratorio Fern Hill.  She is also playing the role of Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro.   When Wilson isn't busy performing she also works as a teacher.



2001: Jessica Pollack
Jessica Pollack performed in a benefit production for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society organized by fellow alumna Suzanne Fiore '01 which featured fellow Conservatory alumni  Kate Petterle '01 and Rachel Kopf '01 in Staten Island (NY).




2001: Kate Petterle '01
Kate Petterle performed in a benefit production for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society organized by fellow alumna Suzanne Fiore '01 which featured fellow Conservatory alumni Rachel Kopf '01 and Jessica Pollack '01 in Staten Island, NY.




2001: Rachel Kopf
Rachel Kopf performed in a benefit production for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society organized by fellow alumna Suzanne Fiore '01 which featured fellow Conservatory alumni Kate Petterle '01 and Jessica Pollack '01 in Staten Island (NY).



2001: Suzanne Fiore
Suzanne Fiore organized a benefit production for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society featuring her fellow Conservatory alumnae Rachel Kopf '01, Kate Petterle '01 and Jessica Pollack '01 in Staten Island(NY).





2001: Thang Dao
Thang Dao is currently working on his Masters at NYU for Choreography with Digital Technology. He is working on a new piece that will be performed with Ballet Austin (TX).



2001: Alicia Christofi Walshe
Alicia choreographed a piece for expandance's performance in Dance New Amsterdam's, Works in Progress series in July 2008 in New York. expandance consists of Rachel Wynne (Artistic Director), Alicia Walshe and Laurie Schneider. They are funded in part by the Arts Council of Ireland. Visit their blog for up-to-date news and information www.expandance.blogspot.com.

2001: Andre Diniz
Andre Diniz has performed in numerous NYC and regional shows including: Stupid Kids (Neeche); West Side Story (Chino); Prometheus Passion (Andros); Beauty and the Beast (Lefou); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Martini) and Dead End (Milty). He recently received Top Pick from The Orlando Sentinel for the writing and directing of 5ive (produced in the 2007 Orlando Fringe Festival). Other playwriting credits includes: Binary Stars; Prometheus Passion (produced by The Sturm Und Drang Company in NYC); Hanging From a Window (produced by The Boston Conservatory in Boston ); and Beginning of Life (produced at the NYC Fringe Festival). He's a published poet with a nomination for Poet of the Year by the International Society of Poets for the poem Sail of Silence and won The Editor's Choice Award from The National Library of Poetry for the poem The Clock . Directing/ choreography credits include: Cabaret; South Pacific; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night; Nunsense I & II; House of Bernarda Alba; Peter Pan; Nowaday s. He recently was Company Manager of The Starlight Theater in Orlando , FL and Co-Artistic Director of The Sturm Und Drang Company in NYC.

2001: Briget Beirne
Bridget Beirne played the role of Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl at the Fiddlehead Theatre along with fellow Boston Conservatory alumni David Krinitt '97 and Rachel Bertone '07.

2001: Christina E. DeVaughn
Christina was a featured soloist at The 2008 Madeline Festival of the Arts and Humanities, called A Tapestry of African-American Song in April 2008.

2001: Dr. Sun Joo Oh
Dr. Sun Joo Oh is currently an assistant professor at East Tennessee State University.

2001: Graham B. Fulmer
Graham B. Fulmer performed in the TOSOS II production of Hollywood at Sunset, by Robert Patrick.



2001: Jessica R. Pollack
Jessica R. Pollack performed in a benefit production for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society organized by fellow alumna Suzanne Fiore '01 featuring fellow Conservatory alumnae Kate Petterle '01 and Rachel Kopf '01 in Staten Island, NY.

2001: Michelle M. Williams
Michelle M. Williams is currently the special events manager at the Huntington Theatre and was recently married.

2001: Rachel K. Kopf
Rachel K. Kopf is playing the role of Ellen in the new national tour of Miss Saigon. Kopf performed in a benefit production for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society organized by fellow alumna Suzanne Fiore '01 featuring fellow Conservatory alumnae Kate Petterle '01 and Jessica Pollack '01 in Staten Island, NY.

2001: Thang Dao
Thang received a 2008 Princess Grace Award in choreography for Ballet Austin. He premiered his new piece, Echoes, at The Boston Conservatory in November.

2001: Vanessa Laws
Vanessa Laws is currently dancing with Eugene Ballet in Oregon. She is also freelancing and teaching with NorthEast Youth Ballet and Roxy Ballet.

2001: Wesley Hopper
Wesley Hopper is an arranger and freelance performer in the Boston area. Hopper married Vanessa Gardner '03, in 2006. He currently works at S.E. Shires & Co. and is a freelance trombone player and a member of the Triton Brass Quintet.

2001:Suzanne Fiore
Fiore is performing in November 2008 with her Cabaret Event, honoring the organization Artist's for Alzheimers (ARTZ) for Alzheimer's Awareness month in honor of her grandmother who was born in November and died from the disease.

2002: Constantine Maroulis
Constantine Maroulis is currently starring in the new Broadway musical, Rock of Ages: A New Musical featuring the music of Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar and many more.



2002: Hsin-yi Chen
Hsin-yi Chen is currently working as a school band director in MA.




2002: Kathryn Zeager Wieand
Kathryn Zeager Wieand is performing throughout the United States and abroad. She recently played the role of Cosette in Les Miserables at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster(PA). She will be performing Pamina in Die Zauberflote in a tour through Spain and up the Mediterranean coast in November 2009 and Christine Diae in The Phantom of the Opera at the Fulton Opera House in 2010. Zeager Wieand is also teaching at a private local studio three days a week.




2002: Mario Ernesto Martinez
Mario Ernesto Martinez appeared in El Cantante as a dancer alongside Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez.



2002: Zachary Robert Hanna
Hanna is performing the understudy of Boq and is a member of the ensemble in the second National Tour of Wicked in March 2009.

2002: Anna Rogozin
Anna Rogozin is currently teaching piano privately.

2002: Antonio Juan-Marcos
Juan is currently studying at the Paris Conservatory, where he studies composition with Stefano Gervasoni, analysis with Claude Ledoux, and electro-acoustics with Luis Naon, Tom Mays, and Yann Geslin. His pieces have been conducted by Zsolt Nagy, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Kanako Abe, Ramón Shade and interpreted among others by the ensemble Multilatérale , the Orchestre National de Lorraine and the Camerata de Coahuila.

2002: Constantine Maroulis
Constantine Maroulis received a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Male Actor in a Musical for his performance in Rock of Ages.

2002: DeMond B. Nason
DeMond B. Nason is playing multiple roles in the Off-Brodway production of Walmartopia. DeMond played Little Redhead in the Off-Broadway production of Awesome 80's Prom and was seen in a TV commercial for the Ultimate Home Game Sweepstakes with Phil Simms and Clint Black. He made his improv comedy debut on December 8, 2004 with Acme Underground in New York City.

2002: Devon Sparrow
Devon Sparrow is currently working as an intellectual property attorney at Bingham-McCutchen & Associates.

2002: Erik P. Fecke
Erik P. Fecke is serving his 17th year in the 567th International Guard Band. He is also starting his Masters in Education at Boston University.



2002: Etleva Hima
Etleva Hima lives in Somerville, MA, where she teaches and works as a freelance musician. Hima is married to Eldri Buli, a television journalist. She is performing with OperaBoston, Emmanuel Music and the Boston Landmark Orchestra.

2002: Junichi Fukuda
Junichi is a company member of Buglisi Dance Theatre which premiered Jacqulyn Buglisi's newest ballet, Interplay No. 9 with live music & acclaimed BDT repertoire on Monday, May 19 at the Howard Gilman Performance Space, Baryshnikov Arts Center with fellow alumna Jennifer DePalo '96.

2002: Kristin Sears

Sears founded a group in 2005 called The Ice Cream Socialists. The Socialists are a 7 piece sketch & improv troupe based out of NYC. Socializing the masses since 2005, this envelope-pushing crew has been peddling their vision of sketch comedy mixed in with short & long form improv.

2002: Zachary R. Hanna
Zach R. Hanna was seen on the television show, Third Watch. Hanna played Mark in the National Tour of Altar Boyz and is performing the understudy of Boc and as a member of the ensemble in the second National Tour of Wicked.

2003: Wendy Bryn Harmer
Wendy Bryn Harmer will be performing the role of Freia in Das Rheingold, Ortlinde in Die Walkure, and the Third Norn in Götterdämmerung at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

2003: Ariel Buck
Ariel Buck is currently living in California and working in Theater. She is a member of a professional choir that performed at Lincoln Center in March 2009.

2003: Caroline Fairchild
Caroline Fairchild is currently living in Ohio and working as a grants coordinator for The Healing Center. The Healing Center offers services such as food and clothing, job skills training and job search assistance, auto repair mentoring, and financial counseling.

2003: Elena Gutierrez Milnes
Milnes is currently working with Colin Israel '05, Sarah Mugavero '05, and Elizabeth Share '99 in the ensemble of Mamma Mia! in Las Vegas. Elena also recently worked with Matt Bauer '01 and Josh Grisetti '04 in a production of Spamalot in Las Vegas, which closed in July.

2003: Lutfullah Bulent Guneralp
Lutfullah Bulent Guneralp is currently being featured in an episode on Cambridge Community television about his life and career along with other talented performers.



2003: Robert Blake
Blake’s conducted his original string orchestra piece, Verklaertes Leben (Transfigured Life), which was performed by The Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra in Milford, MA. The piece was written as a wedding present to his wife Ella Blake '03.

2003: Vanessa Gardner
Vanessa Gardner is now married and freelancing in the Boston area.




2003: Bradford W. Simanski
Bradford W. Simanski appeared in Stoneham Theatre's Christmas Carol in December of 2004 and performed in the national tour of Singing in the Rain as Young Cosmo. Simanski was recently cast as the Boc understudy for the Chicago production of Wicked.

2003: Christopher Nichols

Nichols is currently pursuing a DMA at the University of Kansas while working as a graduate teaching assistant in clarinet. He also currently serves as principal clarinet of the 312th Army Band in Lawrence, KS.

2003: DoraThea Kastanas
DoraThea Kastanas graduated from Boston University with an M.M. in Music Education.

2003: Elizabeth Wotring-Nelson
This is Elizabeth’s second season with Theatre on the Lake after joining the company last year as Martha in The Secret Garden. She is now in McHenry, IL teaching private voice lessons while beginning her own Kindermusik studio in conjunction with Landon's Library. Elizabeth is married to Andrew Nelson, has a 2 1/2 year old daughter, Ingrid Jane, and welcomed Rowan Erik last September.

2003: Julian Reyes
Julian Reyes has taken a brief break from acting to pursue amateur boxing with the New Jersey Golden Gloves.




2003: Kathleen Lynch Koglin
Kathleen Lynch Koglin is married to alumnus Steven Koglin ’03. She recently helped direct, choreograp and played harp for a production of The Fantasticks. She also performed a lecture harp recital in April 2009 and was cast as Caitlin in Over the River and Through the Woods.

2003: Kyung-hun Kim
Kyung-hun Kim studied conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA after graduating from The Boston Conservatory. He is currently the resident conductor at the Chelsea Symphony Orchestra and the Greenwich Village Orchestra. Kim recently moved to Manhattan to begin a conducting program at Juilliard.

2003: Lauren P. Nicholas

Nicholas is a saxophonist with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, under Maestro Allan R. Scott, and will be playing with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra in the spring of 2009 under Diane Wittry. Lauren continues with the Back Bay Saxophone Quartet. She teaches Graphic Design at Moravian College where she also works full-time for the IT Department. Nicholas is a freelance musician, contractor and designer. She works with a small firm called Six 10 Studio.

2003: Linda Feldmann
Linda Feldmann is currently teaching at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin.

2003: Renata C. Steve
Renata C. Steve performed in a recital at Woolsey Hall with Roberta Iarussi.



2003: Steve Koglin
Steven Koglin is married to alumna Kathleen Lynch Koglin ’03. He is currently singing with Master Singers by the Sea and the St. Barnabus Choir.

2003: Theresa Anne
Theresa Anne is currently performing throughout the LA area. She played Tess in the national tour of Crazy For You and performed in the LA premiere of White Christmas. Anne was recently voted LA's Next Great Stage Star 2009 and will be producing her own Cabaret in May 2009.




2003:Nicholas Cearley
Nick will be performing in Pageant with Bill Russell in Boston this fall.

2004 & 2007: James Michael Williams
James Michael Williams is currently teaching at a high school in Massachusetts. He is also involved with Guerilla Opera, a resident ensemble at The Boston Conservatory. James Michael Williams recently performed in two premiere operas and Rumplestilskin (May 2009).



2004: Dayla Perkins
Perkins is currently performing in the ensemble as Cha-Cha in the First National Tour of Grease with American Idol winner Taylor Hicks and fellow Boston Conservatory alumni Will Blum '07 and Bridie Carroll '05.

2004: Dennis Shafer
Dennis Shafer and friends will be presenting five world premieres by the VOX 4 String Quartet, Shafer Saxophone Quartet, Sounds in Bloom, Dr. T. and more at the Longy School of Music. This non-stop avant-garde fringe thriller concert brings together cross-disciplinary experiences from poetry to video art, music inspired by sculpture and then turned to poetry and work with composers exploring new performance techniques and sounds.



2004: Kirsten Young
Kirsten Young is teaching yoga at Yoga Works and recently received her certification in Gyrotechnics.




2004: Kristen Charpentier
Kristen Charpentier is currently singing with the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and recently performed Handel's  Messiah along with fellow alumnus Rene de la Garza '74. The group has two upcoming performances at the end of March, featuring the music of Britten, Pinkham, Rutter and Mozart.



2004: Sandra Ferreira-Iannone
Sandra Ferreira-Iannone is currently working as a psychotherapist.



2004: Adam Souza
Adam will be the conductor for the First Class National tour of Wicked and the alternate conductor for Wicked on Broadway.

2004: Beth Grzegorzewski
Beth performed the role of Sally in Die Fledermaus with South Shore Conservatory's Opera by the Bay this summer.

2004: Dennis Shafer
Dennis was featured in a live interview with NPR’s Rachel Hunter. His repertoire ranges from J.S. Bach to his own compositions with the poetry-music movement-art performance collaborative Sounds in Bloom (myspace.com/dnorma), co-founded with poet Diana Norma Szokolyai. In the studio interview he was accompanied by Jason Felitto (www.jasonfelitto.com) on Rachmaninoff's Vocalise. Dennis is also a recipient of the 2008 Legacy Award from the Creativity Foundation, he recently met with other Legacy Award winners in Washington, D.C. and acrtress Meryl Streep in a round-table to discuss their creative visions and the importance of mentoring and invigorating communities.

2004: Joshua Grisetti
Josh performed in the Off-Broadway musical Enter Laughing at the New York Theatre Company in September 2008.

2004: Katherine Turner
Katherin Turner is graduating from Boston University in May 2010 from their Masters program.

2004: Kirstina Hoge
Kristina Hoge is part of the Public Theater in New York City.

2004: Mary Tsien
Mary Tsien sang with the Canterbury Choral at the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Convention.

2004: Matthew Hoffman
Matthew Hoffman is currently working as a talk show host for NBC and has appeared at various red carpet events.

2004: Michael Bonde
Michael Bonde is developing a new musical through the BMI Dirty Hippy Jamband project. He is also the lead in a Broadway reading of Showchoir the Musical.





2004: Michelle Imhof
Michelle Imhof recently danced with the American Contemporary Ballet and is working on her certification in Alexander Technique.

2004: Quinton I. Morris
Quinton recently received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas in Austin, TX.

2004: Rachel Hauge
Rachel received her M.M. from Boston University this past spring and this summer she was a Young Artist with Chautauqua Opera. In the fall she will be in Hartford, CT as a Resident Artist with Connecticut Opera.

2004:Sandra Ferreira-Iannone
Sandra started and currently directs Allegro Brazil, a Brazilian choir which has been practicing and performing for a whole year now and is expanding their membership for students and professional singers interested in Brazilian classical and jazz repertoire. It's a community volunteer choir sponsored by the Brazilian consulate in Boston . Its mission is to promote Brazilian choir music in the USA .

2005 & 2007: Aliana de la Guardia
Aliana de la Guardia performed the role of La Princesse in L’enfant et les Sortilèges with MetroWest Opera in March 2009. She also recently performed in the premiere of  Rumpelstiltskin with Guerilla Opera (May 2009).



2005 & 2008: Franco Leon
Franco Leon is currently freelancing and teaching at Brookline Music School and Quincy Point Music Conservatory. He is also organizing a music festival called Eschucha.



2005/2006: Angela Henstra
Angela will be performing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with the Flagastaff in Fidenza Young Artist Program in Italy this summer.

2005/2007: Allan Espinosa
Allan, who has been teaching instrumentals for 10 years, will be director of the Quincy Point Music Academy starting in September. The music academy will teach viola, harp, cello, voice and other lessons at the Quincy Point Congregational Church. There will be private and group lessons, and as early as the summer, the teachers will hold free concerts. A summer camp is also being planned. The academy will be funded primarily through tuition, although Espinosa said he sees a day when private donations and grants will allow the school to cover the cost for those who cannot afford it. In addition to one-on-one lessons, students will be able to take group classes and courses in music theory and music history.

2005/2007: Karolina Rojahn
Karolina joins The Boston Conservatory faculty as an instructor and accompanist in keyboard. Karolina, a Warsaw-born pianist, has performed throughout Europe and the United States, including appearances at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall and the Kresge Auditorium at MIT. Karolina has won awards at several competitions, including International Piano Competition in Kosice, the Milosz Magin Competition in Paris, and the Concerto Competition at The Boston Conservatory. She has appeared at several prestigious festivals in Europe, such as Ticino Musica, Alden-Biesen Festival, International Piano Festival in Obidos, and the Samos Island International Festival. As an educator she also holds faculty positions at the Rivers Music School and the Brookline Music School.

2005/2007: Ryan J. Durst
Durst is currently working at Boston Renaissance School as an elementary school music teacher.

2005: Adam Davidowitz
Adam Davidowitz has played with groups such as the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. He is currently playing with the South Bend Symphony and also freelances and teaches in the Chicago area.



2005: Brendan McNab
Brendan McNab recently performed in the production of My Fair Lady at Fiddlehead Theater in Norwood (MA), for which he won the IRNE Award for Best Actor in a Musical.



2005: Brian Mahany
Mahany was in the Original Off-Broadway cast of Spring Awakening at the Atlantic Theatre Company in 2006, and shortly thereafter originated the role of Jack Scott in the Disney produced First National Tour of Disney's High School Musical. Mahany has participated in many readings throughout the city including Men Brains, Ella Minnow Pea, and Mister Fabulous written by Bill Russell that had a short run at the York Theatre in 2007.

2005: Cedric Leiba, Jr.
Leiba made his Off-Broadway debut in an up and coming hip hop musical titled Kingdom as the lead character Juan in November 2008.

2005: Christine Hardisty
Christine Hardisty is currently working at University of Maryland in the Office of Development. She also teaches voice at Holton Arms Girls School. They did a recent performance of Goodnight Desdemona, Goodnight Juliet, and also directed Our Town at Landon’s School for Boys. Christine Hardisty is also enrolled in a directing class at a local college. She directed a one act production of I Never saw another Butterfly.



2005: Colin Israel
Israel is currently performing in the ensemble of Mamma Mia! in Las Vegas along with Sarah Mugavero '05.

2005: Corrie Borris
Borris is currently working in marketing for a cosmetics company.

2005: Ebony Williams
Ebony Williams can be seen on the April 2009 cover of Dance Spirit magazine. She will also be seen in the upcoming video Love Sex Magic featuring Justin Timberlake and Ciara.



2005: James Johnson
James Johnson is currently freelancing around Houston, and he will be graduating from Rice University with his MD.  James Johnson has also been substituting for the Houston Symphony.




2005: Kala Maxym
Kala Maxym has relocated to NYC and is currently working on starting her own business, The Opera Insider. More information is available at www.theoperainsider.com.



2005: Markus Hauck
Markus Hauck recently served as pianist and assistant music director for the national tour of I Love A Piano, a revue of Irving Berlin's music.  He is now back in NYC and has been contracted as music director for the production of The Wild Party by Michael John LaChiusa, which will open at the 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield (NJ) in June 2009.




2005: Sarah Mugavero
Sarah Mugavero recently did a reading at York Theatre for On Prodigy.



2005: Valerie Mack Callahan
Valerie Mack Callahan is currently performing with a string quartet based in Westford (MA) that works to raise scholarship money for students.



2005: Adam Berry
Adam just closed two shows, Tick Tick Boom! with Counter Productions and Andrew Lippa's Wild Party with CTEK Arts. In the fall he will be performing in Shining City by Conor McPherson at the Wellfleet Harbor Actor's Theatre.

2005: Adina Verson
Verson is currently performing as a Lady of the Chorus in Tom Stoppard's Rough Crossing at Yale Repertory Theatre.

2005: Amy Jackson
Jackson is currently performing in Liz Swados' new musical Kasper Hauser: a foundling's opera at The Flea in New York.

2005: Brandon Davidson
Davidson will be appearing in the Broadway tour of White Christmas in Detroit, MI.

2005: Bret Carr
Bret Carr is currently working a show that will be submitted to a French festival.

2005: Bridie Carroll
Carroll is currently playing the role of Jan in the First National Tour of Grease with American Idol winner Taylor Hicks and fellow Boston Conservatory alumni Will Blum '07 and Dayla Perkins '04.

2005: Jonathan Gealt
Last summer Jonathan finished his demo CD and put together a producers' reading of his musical, Forward . The demo and the reading featured many other Boston Conservatory alumni. His next step is a 29-hour reading to test new changes. Stafford Arima is directing and Junkyard Dog Productions are the producers. Jonathan has also been performing regularly. Recent performances include the Performers for Peace benefit at the Triad, reading the role of Marc in a new musical version of Ethan Frome at Carroll Music and Unsung 2007 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre—a benefit for Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. Jonathan was also a guest featured composer at the Monday Nights New Voices concert in the Village. Jonathan now has an agent and will read the role of Billy in the new play Dangerous Woman . This summer he will be fighting in the barricades in Les Miserables .

2005: Joshua Schulteis
Joshua Schulteis is about to start the international tour of West Side Story. He was also cast in the first Step Up movie and performed with the Walker Dance Company, where he performed a national tour with Chet Walker.

2005: Klaudia Szlachta
Klaudia Szlachta is currently in her second year studying violin performance at Boston University.

2005: Leslie Spring Kittel
Leslie and pianist, Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek performed an Italian recital in Milton, MA at the First Parish on September 7, 2008 entitled Bell'Italia. The performance featured arts songs and concert arias by Caccini, Caldara, Giordani, Pergolesi, Donaudy, and Bellini; plus arias from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, Puccini's Tosca, and Verdi's La Traviata. Leslie is currently living in Italy.

2005: Markus Hauck
Markus relocated to New York in the summer of 2008 to pursue opportunities in the musical theater genre. He was hired as Lead Pianist/Associate Musical Director for the national tour of I Love A Piano, a revue of Irving Berlin's music. The show was conceived and written by Ray Roderick, who is also directing this production.

2005: Michael Aurit
Michael Aurit is currently a first year law student at Phoenix School of Law.




2005: Michelle Petrucci
Petrucci is currently performing in the first national tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as the character of Wang beginning in February 2009.

2005: Nicholas Adams

Adams will be playing Liver Lips Louis in the Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls. Nick just finished a run of Rocky Horror at the Lyric Theatre in Oklahoma City, OK where he played the character of Rocky.

2005: Nicholas Adams
Nicholas Adams hosted Live Out Loud's eighth annual Young Trailblazers Benefit Gala. Adams also appeared on Broadway in A Chorus Line opposite Mario Lopez and will be seen in the film An Englishman in New York later this year. He is currently performing the role of Liver Lips Louis in the Broadway production of Guys and Dolls.

2005: Phillip Fazio
After completing a three year contract as an Artist in Residence at Phoenix Theatre where he earned his equity card and directing experience, Phillip moved to NYC. He spent a summer at Lincoln Center as a member of the Director's Lab and was just hired as the Assistant Director on a new revival of Pippin premiering at the Mark Taper Forum in LA this winter.

2005: Sarah Mugavero
Mugavero was recently the temporary replacement for the role of Ali in the Las Vegas production of Mamma Mia.

2005: Scott Kleinfeld
Scott is the Director and Owner of BambooMoves in Englewood, NJ. BambooMoves offers classes in yoga, dance, Tai Chi, and mixed martial arts.

2005: Wright Burnett-Smith
Wright is currently the Stage Manager for Cirque du Soleil's Ka at MGM Grand. After graduation, he stage managed Celine Dion: A New Day , Le Reve and Stomp Out Loud .

2005;2007: Ryan J. Durst
Ryan J. Durst performed in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway and 110 in the Shade with Audra McDonald. He also performed in Ragtime at the Kennedy Center.

2006 & 2008: Joseph Fantozzi
Joseph Fantozzi is currently on faculty at City College and is part of the trumpet faculty at Long Island Conservatory. He also freelance performs with the Concert Pops of Long Island, Merrick Symphony and Atlantic Wind Symphony in NY.



2006 & 2008: Michelle Ordorica
Michelle Ordorica is currently performing with the Newton Symphony. They recently performed a program titled Celtic Voyage.

2006: Danica A. Buckley

Buckley is currently the conductor of the First Parish Church Choir in Brookline, the Choral Arts Society Choir in South Boston, the Braintree Community Choir and the Simmons College Center Choir.

2006: Dan'yelle Williamson
Williamson just finished understudying the role of Elphaba in the Chicago production of Wicked. She is currently playing the role of Nala in the National Tour of Disney's The Lion King.

2006: Eric Imhoff
Eric Imhoff was signed with an agency as a result of his performance in the Showcase. He received his equity card and is currently working on regional theater productions, including a new play written by fellow alumni.



2006: Janet N. Zimmerman
Janet N. Zimmerman was recently involved in the Vancouver Early Music Festival and the Franco American Vocal Academy.



2006: Kelly A. Graeber
Kelly A. Graeber is currently the acting treasurer of the Eastern District of Massachusetts Music Educators Association. She will also be traveling to Budapest, Hungary in the spring to study the Kodaly music teaching method.



2006: Kevin M. Nadolski
Kevin M. Nadolski is currently getting his doctorate at Plano Texas Tech University.



2006: Laura Saenz
Saenz and her boyfriend, Jason Felitto ‘04 are traveling with a band all over the world performing at weddings and resorts.

2006: Leah Campbell Murthy
Leah Campbell Murthy is currently teaching private voice lessons from her home in Virginia.  Recently, she took an extended trip to India where she studied Light Classical, Folk and Devotional songs in Kannada with renowned Carnatic Singer B.K. Sumitra.



2006: Matthew Truss
Matthew Truss won an award in an opera competition in Bruge, Belgium.




2006: Michael Brugal
Brugal recently spent four months in Paris performing in churches along with alumna and wife Kathryn Brugal ’07.

2006: Pius K. Cheung
Pius K. Cheung is being featured in a concert at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield (MA) as part of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, where he took first place in February 2009.



2006: Ravi Roth
Roth is living in NYC performing in the Off-Broadway production of Altar Boyz with Travis Nesbitt '06 and Austin Leche '04.

2006: Rebecca Rasmussen
Rasmussen is currently on tour with Momix, a company of dance illusionists under the direction of Moses Pendleton.

2006: Richard Yates
Yates is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Composition and Choral Conducting at the University of Minnesota. He recently sang with the University's chorale in collaboration with Ko Matsushita from Tokyo, Japan.

2006: Travis Magee
Magee still works at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.  He just finished Ward 9 at NYMT festival, which won best choreography.

2006: Tyler Shepherd
Shepherd attended the Tanglewood Music Festival during the summer of 2008. He also teaches privately and is a regular sub for the San Antonio Symphony.

2006: Binna Han
Binna is completing her DMA at the University of Minnesota. This summer she will be performing the role of Azucena in Il Trovatore with DuLuth Opera. This upcoming fall she will perform Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia and Kostelnicka in Jenufa at The University of Minnesota Opera Theatre.

2006: Charles Bradley
Chuck produced, directed and acted in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, a benefit performance for the Empty Space Theatre Company.

2006: Christopher Espinosa
Christopher is currently working for the University of Miami Dept. of Orthopedics Billing and Collections as the Senior Staff Assistant. He is also dancing for the nonprofit ballet company Arts Ballet Theater of Florida, under the artistic direction of Vladimir Issaev. They perform six times a year and Christopher teaches contemporary dance movement and Pilates. Before joining the University of Miami , Christopher was dancing with the Nashville Ballet's Second Company.

2006: Christopher Espinosa
Christopher Espinosa is working on beginning a career in nursing. He is currently studying at Barry University.



2006: Daniel Housek
Dan performed in The Eight: Reineer Monologues, a benefit performance for the Empty Space Theatre Company.

2006: Desiree M. Glazier
Desiree M. Glazier is currently freelancing and teaching.

2006: Douglas Goodhart
Douglas performed in T he Eight: Reindeer Monologues, a benefit performance for the Empty Space Theatre Company.

2006: Eric Imhoff
Eric performed in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, a benefit performance for the Empty Space Theatre Company.

2006: Hannah J. Druckman
Hannah J. Druckman is currently living with her husband in Palo Alto, CA and teaches general music and strings to students K-8 in Newark and Fremont, CA. She is also performing with the chorus, Viva La Musica.

2006: Jaime E. Alberts
Jaime E. Alberts recently wrote a focus article for the Mass Music News. Her middle school choir was also commissioned to premiere two new settings of Shakespeare.




2006: Lois Toeppner
Lois has been elected National Secretary of the American Guild of Organists. The AGO is the national professional association serving the organ and choral music fields. The Guild serves approximately 20,000 members in 330 chapters throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Founded in 1896 as both an educational and service organization, the Guild seeks to set and maintain high musical standards and to promote understanding and appreciation of all aspects of organ and choral music. Her two-year term of office is effective July 1, 2008. She will be installed into this position at the AGO National Convention in Minneapolis, which will be held June 21-27.

2006: Manny Dayao
Dayao just got a new job at a private school teaching general music from Pre-K to 8th grade.  He also has a part-time job with music at the local church and is engaged.

2006: Mara Kaye
Mara performed in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, a benefit performance for the Empty Space Theatre Company. Mara is also in the Asian tour of Spongebob Squarepants Live !

2006: Matthew Truss
Matthew won the Jerry Hadley Award in the Elardo International Opera Competition through the Intermezzo Foundation. The award is given in honor of the great American tenor.

2006: Michael Cohen
Cohen graduated from Indiana University in May 2008 with a Master's degree.

2006: Michael Mosallam
Michael Mosallam recently shot his first film titled Stags, which was released in 2009. He is working as the artistic director of an Arab-American Comedy Show. He also worked on a show titled Westbank UK and is working on two feature web series.

2006: Michaela Faucher
Faucher wrote and performed Hey, You Know What Movie Would Make a Good Musical? at Zipper Theatre in NYC along with fellow alumni Andrew Bogner ’06 and Jason Michael Snow ‘06.

2006: Natalie L. Polito
Natalie performed the role of Adele in Die Fledermaus with the South Shore Conservatory's Opera By The Bay. She was featured in a review in the Duxbury Clipper.

2006: Oliver L. Caplan
Caplan was promoted to the Director of Communications and Marketing for Juventas. He is a freelance composer and also works part-time as a Faculty and Collections assistant in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.

2006: Pamela Harris Burleson

Burleson received her Master's degree in Horn Performance from Rice University and is currently working part-time with the Houston and Honolulu Symphonies.  Burleson was married in December 2008.

2006: Penny L. Hansen
Penny performed in Baby with Riverside Theatre Works in March. She recently performed in Pippin and is the swing for She Loves Me at The Huntington Theatre in Boston .

2006: Ryan Bogner

Bogner finished a run of Bedbugs!!! At a musical theater festival and an Off-Broadway production:  Hey, You Know What Movie Would Make a Good Musical? at Zipper Theater, which he wrote along with fellow alumni Michaela Faucher ’06 and Jason Michael Snow ’06.

2006: Shannon Amiry
Shannon performed in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, a benefit performance for the Empty Space Theatre Company.

2006: Travis Nesbitt
After finishing a year on the road with The Producers, Travis decided to leave the tour and move back to NYC. In September, he played Young Carriere in Yeston's Phantom of the Opera at Westchester Broadway Theatre starring Robert Cuccioli and Kate Rockwell. After a six month run he received his Equity card. In October he will be going on tour with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, in the male ensemble and understudy for the Dick Van Dyke role.

2006: Victor Wisehart
Since graduating, Victor Wisehart has been actively involved as a dancer and theater performer. He danced principal roles with New York Theater Ballet, performed in the 50th Anniversary World Tour of West Side Story in Europe, directed by Joey McNeely, and a run of Radio City Spectacular in Chicago and St. Louis. Wisehart is currently in Boston, performing in the Huntington Theater's production of Pirates! as a pirate, alongside alumna Sarah C. Ziegler '07.

2006: Zachary I. Ebin
Ebin is working on his PhD in Musicology at York University in Toronto, Canada.

2007/2008: Renee G. Hites
Renee is working at MIT in their Alumni Relations department.

2007: Allyson Pace
Pace recently performed in productions of The Full Monty with La Comedia (Ohio), Ocean City Christmas Spectacular with Ocean City Theater (New Jersey), Seussical: The Musical, My Way: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra, and Vagina Monologues with Roxy Theater in TN.

2007: Austin Regan
Austin Regan directed It Started with a Dream for David Zipple at 92nd Y in NYC. He is also working for Michael Mayor, the director of Spring Awakening.




2007: Brandon K. McLean
Brandon K. McLean is currently performing with the New World Symphony in Miami.



2007: Brian Thacker
Thacker is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree at Yale.

2007: Chelsea Morgan Stock
Stock performed a benefit concert for Crohn's and Colitis disease at The Duplex in NYC on December 8th, 2008. She is also currently playing one of the sisters and understudying Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid on Broadway.

2007: Chelsea Morgan Stock
Chelsea Morgan Stock assumed the role of Ariel in The Little Mermaid on Broadway in June 2009.




2007: Courtney Linton
Linton is now living in NYC, working in casting and film.

2007: Daniel Micciche
Micciche is currently performing in the National and International Tour of Chicago in the role of Mary Sunshine. He also performed a revival of Bernstein's Mass with the Baltimore Symphony at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, which can be heard on a recording produced by Sony.

2007: Elizabeth Alexander
Alexander is currently dancing for Donna Sternberg & Dancers in Santa Monica, CA.

2007: Erin N. Huelskamp
Huelskamp is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Juventas, a Boston based new music ensemble that voices the musical culture of the present by featuring repertoire of composers under the age of 35.

2007: Frankie Marrone
Marrone is currently working in sales for Broadway.com.

2007: Jessica Corwin and Philip Silva
Jessica Corwin is currently performing with a string quartet called Larkcom String with alumni Valerie Mack-Callahan '05 and Jessica Eberiel '05.

2007: Juhyun Kim
Kim is working on her Masters Degree in Violin Performance at Yale.

2007: Kathryn A. McKellar
Kathryn A. McKellar recently performed with Operatunity Performing Arts Center as Pamina in the production of Die Zauberflote and as a principal artist with the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater in San Francisco. McKellar is performing the role of Oberto in Handel's Alcina and in the 2009 Gala with Boston Opera Collaborative.  In June, she will be performing in the production of L'Incoronazine di Poppea with OperaHub.

2007: Kathryn Brugal
Brugal recently spent four months in Paris performing in churches along with alumnus and husband Michael Brugal ’07.

2007: Min-Tzu Li

Li is in her second season performing at Ballet Hispanico located in NYC. The company's 13 members perform works by the foremost Latino choreographers of our time, as well as those of emerging artists.

2007: Nicholas Nunez
Nicholas Nunez is currently working on the Disney Cruise Line performing in Toy Story: The Musical. When on land, you can find him performing in Life Could Be a Dream at the Carousel Dinner Theatre in Akron(OH).



2007: Rachel Bertone
Bertone performed in Annie, No No Nannette and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with the Reagle Players in Waltham, MA.  She is currently living in NYC, working and auditioning.

2007: Rebecca I. Saslow
Saslow spent this past summer participating in Opera New Jersey's Young Artist Program.

2007: Sarah C. Ziegler
Ziegler is currently teaching private voice lessons.

2007: Sasha Weiss
Weiss is involved in shows with the Improv Comedy Group, The Laugh Factory, and an ABC TV Show What Would You Do.

2007: William Blum
Blum is currently playing the role of Roger in the First National Tour of Grease with American Idol winner Taylor Hicks and fellow alumnae Bridie Carroll '05 and Dayla Perkins '04.

2007: Amanda S. Wilson
Amanda was nominated for two Cincinnati Entertainment Awards: Local Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical as Nadia in Bare: The Musical (Know Theatre of Cincinnati) and Ensemble Acting Performance in Jerry Springer: The Opera (New Stage Collective).

2007: Angessa Hughmanick
Angessa Hughmanick was the choreographer and lead dancer in a Greek tragedy titled, Bacchae that will air on PBS.

2007: Audrey Burns
Burns is a dancer in the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company in Troy, NY.

2007: Caitlin Burke
Burke is currently living and auditioning in NYC.

2007: Charissa C. Denham
Denham is currently the K-6th grade music teacher at the Paideia School of Tampa Bay and the chair of applied music at Trinity College.  She is also a member of the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay and the Richard Zielinski Singers.

2007: Charles Stevensen Rogers
Steven currently teaches music, grades 5-12 at the Maret School in Washington, DC

2007: Chen Lin
Chen Lin is working on her D.M.A. at Boston University with a concentration in viola. She is also a member of The Boston String Quartet; they perform throughout the Boston area and were on tour last season.




2007: Christine Dunn
Dunn is a teacher at Alabourgh High School in MA.

2007: Eriko Daimo
Eriko Daimo is going to be touring in Japan and Europe. She also has an upcoming concerto concert and masterclass at the University of Texas. 

2007: Jennifer Hegmann
Jennifer Hegmann is currently in graduate school at George Mason University.  She was getting married in July 2009.



2007: Jessica French
French works with the Spanish Music Academy.

2007: John W. Gomez
John sang with Opera Boston in June as Le Dancairo in Carmen. He will also be singing the role of Rodolfo in La Boheme at Seagle Music Colony this summer.

2007: Kristen O. Sweeney
Kristen performed in the production of Les Miserables at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, ME during September 2008. The cast included fellow alumni John Farchione ’08, Andrew Giordano ’92 and Valerie Moranto ’95.

2007: Lauren Lane Kwederis
Lauren Lane Kwederis performed in the show Dirty Dancing as part of the ensemble and as an understudy for the role of Baby.

2007: Leah Joseph
Joseph recently joined the national tour of Mamma Mia! as a member of the ensemble.

2007: Lydia J. Hall
Lydia sang at the Blossom Music Festival with the Cleveland Orchestra this summer and is actively teaching. Additionally, she worked as the Public Relations and Marketing Assistant for Cain Park in Cleveland Heights, OH.

2007: Marco L. DeAlmeida
DeAlmeida is currently attending graduate school at the University of Southern California.

2007: Meghan Doherty-Scannell
Doherty-Scannell is currently working as the Assistant Manager for the Rockefeller Center Ice Rink in New York City.

2007: Rachel Bertone
Rachel Bertone is played the role of Bubbles in the musical Funny Girl at Fiddlehead Theatre along with fellow Boston Conservatory alumni Bridget Beirne '01 and David Krinitt '97.

2007: Ryley Conlon
Conlon moved back to Boston from NYC and is currently working for Boston.com.

2007: Sarah C. Ziegler
Sarah C. Ziegler is currently performing in the cast of Pirates! as Jane at the Huntington Theater along with alumnus Victor Wisehart '06.

2007: Shanna Heverly
Shanna will be joining the Cats national tour, beginning in August 2008 through July 5, 2009.

2007: Stanka Georgieva Stavreva
Stanka Georgieva Stavreva made her New York Recital Debut on April 4, 2009 in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as part of Artists International, Inc. and the Special Presentation Winners Series.

2007: Tsarra Bequette
Tsarra Bequette is currently working with Momix, which premiered Botanica at the Joyce Theater in May 2009.



2008: Anna Robinson
Robinson is in graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts studying with Robin Graham.

2008: Jensyn N. Oertel Modero
Modero is auditioning and teaching voice and dance.  She is teaching tap, jazz, voice, and acting at a private performing arts school, and choreographing for New Jersey public high schools. Jensyn also recently got married and bought a house.

2008: Allen Corbitt Williams
Williams received rave reviews for his role of Miss Industrial Northeast in the musical Pageant at the Stoneham Theatre.

2008: Amaury Morales
Morales is in his first year at Carnegie Mellon University for his Masters Degree in Piano Performance.

2008: Andrew E. Hanson-Dvoracek
Hanson-Dvoracek is pursuing his master's degree in Musicology at Iowa State.

2008: Andrew L. Wehling
Andrew L. Wehling is currently on tour with Pancake Theatreworks in the production of If You Give a Pig, which is touring the North and Midwest.



2008: Anich D'Jae Wright
Anich D’Jae Wright was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the production The Life in the IRNE Awards.  She is currently living in NYC.



2008: Caitlin Grady
Caitlin Grady recently sang the national anthem at a Celtics game and for the Macy's Tree Lighting. She is also busy auditioning.



2008: Chelsey M. Arce
Arce appeared in a commercial for Rhapsody Music.

2008: Christopher L. Burgess
Burgess recently relocated to TN.

2008: David W. Albright
David just moved to NYC and is living with fellow alumnus, Jared Troilo ‘08 in the same West Harlem building as alumni Anich Wright ’08 and Stephanie Umoh ’08. He is getting settled and doing a lot of auditioning.

2008: Eun-Deok Jeon
Eun-Deok Jeon is currently working on his doctorate at the University of Texas.




2008: Jeffery J. Dinan
Jeffery J. Dinan was selected as a finalist in the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmakers' Award Competition, where he submitted a commercial title The Scrooge. Dinan was given a production grant to produce his 50-second film.



2008: Jennifer E. Jonas
Jennifer E. Jonas has been cast in High School Musical 2 at the Yorktown Stage as dance captain and a member of the dance ensemble for April 2009.




2008: Jennifer L. Psujek
Psujek is working on her Master’s degree at Bowling Green University in Music History.

2008: Katherine B. Geisler
Geisler is living in NYC auditioning for shows and “living the dream.”

2008: Kathleen J. O'Brien
O’Brien works as a store manager on Newbury Street.

2008: Kendal Hartse
Hartse is currently living in NYC and recently performed By The Sea with Rhode Islands Theatre for their historic reopening. She also just finished touring with the national tour of Cats.

2008: Lesley A. Friend
Lesley A. Friend competed in the Orpheus Competition where she won the Bel Canto award.




2008: Michael D. Andrako
Andrako recently performed in Oliver at Fiddlehead Theatre in Norwood, MA. He will be performing in the Jerry Springer Opera in May in Boston.

2008: Nicholas Ryan Rowe
Rowe received rave reviews for his role in the musical Pageant at the Stoneham Theatre.

2008: Peter R. Van Dam
Van Dam is currently interning at a casting office.

2008: Rachel A. Burke
Rachel A. Burke is currently teaching at Jose Matteo Ballet Theatre and Harvard Business School. She also recently performed with Contrapose Dance.



2008: Rukmini Vijayakumar
Vijayakumar appeared in an Indian movie, Amanda Pnandabam, which wrapped at the beginning of December. She has performed modern dance in India, and been featured in print ads for Union Bank, an Indian clothing line.

2008: Steinar M. Kristinsson
Kristinsson is currently living in Iceland and teaching music to all ages at three different schools. He will also be performing in a concert to be broadcast on TV this holiday season.

2008: Stephen F. Chambers
Stephen F. Chambers recently performed in the Southern Opera in New Zealand production of Gianni Schicchi in the role of Marco (March 2009).



2008: Teresa Mai
Mai is currently in California and New York auditioning as much as possible. She was recently cast as the role of Barbarina in Le Nozze Di Figaro with a small opera company in LA, which runs until February 2009.

2008: William L. Larche
Larche was cast as the lead in the musical, Enter Laughing, with New Vista Theater in FL.

2008: Abigail E. Feinberg
Abby recently filmed a national Dockers commercial. She will be performing in the production of High School Musical as the character Kelsi Neilson at Ogunquit Playhouse in ME during the summer of 2009.

2008: Alisa M. Walker
Alisa will be performing in the production of High School Musical as the character Gabriella Montez at Ogunquit Playhouse in ME during the summer of 2009.

2008: Alison G. Eckert
Eckert played the role of Franca in the SpeakEasy Stage Company's production of The Light in the Piazza along with Boston Conservatory student, John Bambery, '09, who played the role of Fabrizio.

2008: Allen Corbitt Williams
Allen Corbitt Williams will be performing on Disney Cruise ships in Peter Pan.



2008: Amanda N. Dickson
Mandy is currently playing Ariel in Disney Hollywood Studio's stage adaptation of The Little Mermaid (titled The Voyage of the Little Mermaid) in Orlando, Florida.

2008: Andrew C. Durand
Andrew was cast in Spring Awakening on Broadway in the role of Gaylord and understudy for Moritz. He also just completed a workshop of the untitled Greenday project, also in NYC.

2008: Andrew C. Durand
Andrew C. Durand concluded his role in the production of Spring Awakening on Broadway and is currently working on a new project titled Caught in the Threshold.

2008: Autumn A. Hill
Hill is dancing with Ballet Rox, a new company in MA.

2008: Carly S. Sakolove
Carly S. Sakolove is currently on tour with Girls Night: The Musical, a five woman show. The show will be opening Off-Broadway in the summer of 2009.

2008: Colleen M. Edwards

Edwards participated in the Dance DC festival and is currently teaching ballet at three schools.

2008: Colleen M. Edwards

Edwards participated in the Dance DC festival and is currently teaching ballet at three schools.

2008: Jared Troilo
Jared Troilo is currently living in NYC playing the lead role of Danny Vincente in a new Off-Broadway musical titled Hells Kitchen: The Musical. In May 2009, he will appeared as Tremont/Angel Gabriel in Jerry Springer the Opera at The Speakeasy Stage Company in Boston.



2008: Jared Troilo
Jared Troilo just completed two Off-Broadway musical called Hells Kitchen and SpeakEasy.

2008: Jennifer E. Jonas
Jonas is currently dancing with the Eryc Taylor Dance Company, a New York City based company devoted to the exploration and cultivation of presenting innovative and theatrical choreography on pointe.

2008: Jennifer K. Radcliffe
Jennifer K. Radcliffe is currently living in New York City and is busy auditioning. She is also involved with a work-study program at Steps on Broadway. Radcliffe is teaching at an afterschool program at Sire Good Marshall Academy in Harlem.

2008: Jessica C. Azenberg
Jessica is performing in A Christmas Carol at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in November and December 2008.

2008: John Farchione

Farchione just finished up a production of Les Miserables at Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. He is now doing another production of Les Miserables in Vermont.

2008: Jordan Fife Hunt
Jordan Hunt was recently signed to the National Touring Company of A Chorus Line.

2008: Julianne G. Park
Julianne made her NYC debut as Larina in Eugene Onegin and also covered Tatiana with New York Opera Studio. She is currently singing with DiCapo Opera Theater where they are performing The Crucible and will next tour Hungary.

2008: Julianne G. Park
Julianne G. Park is currently working on her Masters degree at New Jersey City University.

2008: Kevin F. Doherty
Doherty is currently working as an elementary music teacher.

2008: Kristen A. Klein
Kristen A. Klein performed with 6 Degrees Dance Company and she is working on her own choreography.



2008: Kristina A. Riegle

Riegle is currently working on a few projects, including a fundraising production titled Broadway Night and a production of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges with MetroWest Opera in Weston. She will also be performing the role of Ruggiero in Handel's Alcina with Boston Opera Collaborative in February 2009.

2008: Kristina A. Riegle
Kristina A. Riegle will be performing with Boston Opera Collaborative this summer.



2008: Monique D. Altamirano
Monique Altamirano is currently playing Junie B. Jones in the musical Junie B. Jones.



2008: Sheri L. Fernandes
Fernandes is currently the Director of Music at East Brockton High School in Massachusetts.

2008: Stacey L. Cabaj
Cabaj recently performed with The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. in the productions of Way of the World and Twelfth Night. Stacey is also performing with the Lansburg Theatre in productions of Dog in the Manger and King Lear.

2008: Stephanie Jean Umoh
Stephanie Jean Umoh performed in the production of Hair as Sheila at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre.



2008: Stephen F. Chambers
Stephen F. Chambers is performed in the Southern Opera in New Zealand production of Gianna Schicchi in the role of Marco through March 2009.

2008: Steven A. Mossberg
Steven A. Mossberg is currently teaching at an elementary school and actively gigging around the Boston area.



2008: William S. Roberts
Will obtained a job with Opera Carolina in the Resident Young Artist program. He has been cast as Basilio in The Barber of Seville and Bartolo in The Marriage of Figaro.

2008: Ying-Jun Wei
Ying-Jun Wei is currently continuing her studies at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA.



2009: Nan-Yen Lin
Nan-Yen Lin began PH.D. studies in Clarinet Performance at Florida State University in July 2009.



Anna DeMoranville
Anna DeMoranville performed in the National Tour of The Full Monty.

Darin Wood (1995-1997)
Wood is currently working as an improv comedian and starring in The Darin Wood Comedy Hour to be showcased at King King in Hollywood, CA.

Elizabeth Rajasekhar (2003-2004)
Elizabeth just finished performing in the show About Face at the New York Musical Theater Festival.

Ellie Potts Barrett (Ellen Wolkind 1970-1973 dance)
Ellie has been choreographing all over the world, and most recently in Seoul, South Korea. She has also been working for the Disney Corporation. She recently produced Barrettwerks, a modern dance concert showcasing her work in Orlando, FL. Ellie has worked as an associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL to master artists Merce Cunningham, Meg Harper and Elizabeth Streb. In April 2008, the Dance and Theater department of the University of Central Florida awarded Ellie with the prestigious Central Florida Dance Award. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, FL where she teaches modern dance, composition, and musical theatre.

Fidel Zayco (2001-2003)
Fidel currently works as an associate director for a marketing research firm. He still performs from time to time.

Glenn Mairo (we have no back log information on him)
Mairo is currently the President of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society.

Jesse W. Swenson (2004-2007)
Swenson did two episodes on the TV show Army Wives as the character Quinn and he participated in a workshop called Burnt Part Boys where he played Jake.

John G. Freedson (1983-1985 musical theater)
Mairo is currently the President of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society.

Little Tree (1992-1993)
Tree is still teaching ballet, modern, and Qi Gong through Tai Chi at the Richard Black CTR at Hanover Rec. He became a certified Master Gardener in the summer of 2008 through the UVM Extension Program. He also still owns and operates Massage and Movement.  

Michael A. Strelo-Smith
After leaving the Conservatory, Michael continued his studies at The San Francisco Conservatory. In 1999 he made his professional debut as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly. He has also appeared onstage at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Hall. Most recently, Michael was selected as a semi-finalist on Season 3 of America's Got Talent.

Ryan Lile (2003-2008 music)
Lile is taking short hiatus from acting while getting settled in his new home in Queens, NYC and working on a cruise ship from January through June.

Sam Rivers (dates unknown)
Rivers recently performed a concert with the New England Conservatory’s Jazz Ensemble.

Su-Chuan Cheng
Su-Chuan Cheng received her DMA for piano performance from the University of Maryland in 2006. She now lives in California and teaches privately and works as an accompanist.

Thaddeus Chrabaszcz
Thaddeus Chrabaszcz is retired and living in Florida with his wife, Pauline Chrabaszcz ’60 ’61.

Timothy C. Markman (2004-2008)
Markman recently relocated to NYC where he is auditioning and working at The Standard; a new hotel in the Meatpacking District.

Wesley Thomas (1989-1994)
Thomas has been singing opera in public for nearly twelve years.