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Kinhaven Senior Session Faculty

Nancy Bidlack, Director, cellist, teacher, and administrator of the Senior Session since 1970. She became the full-time Director and Executive Director in 2004. She created the Junior Session in 1990 and has been its only Director. She is Assistant Principal Cellist of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic and the Bethlehem Bach Choir Orchestra.  For 26 years, she served as Principal Cellist of the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra. Nancy also conducts the Junior String Philharmonic, which is part of the Lehigh Valley Young People’s Philharmonic. She and her husband, Jerry, founded this youth orchestra in 1976.

Jerry T. Bidlack, Director Emeritus, was the full-time Conductor at Kinhaven from 1968-2003. He served as Director from 1981 – 2003. Jerry was a professor of music at Lehigh University for 25 years, and served as chairman for six years. In 1976 he co-founded the Young People’s Philharmonic of the Lehigh Valley along with his wife, Nancy. He is currently the conductor of the Kinhaven choruses.

John Bannon, Percussion, is Principal Timpanist with The Florida Orchestra, and conducts orchestra, band, and teaches conducting at St. Petersburg College. He was formerly Principal Timpanist with the Anchorage Symphony, the Oklahoma Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria in Mexico City, the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, and the Honolulu Symphony. He earned degrees in Percussion Performance from the University of South Florida (BA) and the University of Michigan (MM), and in Instrumental Conducting (DMA) from the University of Miami. Dr. Bannon has taught for thirty years as an adjunct to his performing career, and counts among his former students numerous professional musicians.

Logan Coale, Double Bass, holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in double bass performance from Boston University. His principal teachers include, Edwin Barker, Todd Seeber, and Tim Pitts. He is a member of the Sarasota Opera orchestra, and has performed with the San Antonio Symphony and Alarm Will Sound. In September, Mr. Coale joined the NOW Ensemble, a contemporary chamber music quintet based in New York, with whom he has toured internationally and participated in residences at the University of Pittsburgh, Princeton, and Yale Universities. In April, Mr. Coale will appear on the debut CD of the New York based chamber orchestra, The Knights, on Sony Classical. Mr. Coale is a graduate of the Tanglewood Music Center where he was a fellow in 2004 and 2006, and has participated in the Aspen, Schlesswig-Holstein, Domaine-Forget, National Repertory Orchestra, and Moritzburg Festival Academy summer music programs.

Rachael Elliott, Bassoon, is based in Durham, North Carolina. She is a founding member of Clogs, Heliand Trio and Tuple, and also performs with the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble and Burlington Chamber Orchestra.

With Clogs, she has premiered dozens of new works for improvising chamber ensemble, and released five albums. She has toured throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia, including concerts at Brooklyn Academy of Music, London Jazz Festival and Sydney Festival. She has also performed in pop/rock settings with The National, My Brightest Diamond and Sufjan Stevens.

A dedicated music educator, Rachael teaches bassoon at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College. In 2009, she presented master classes and recitals with Tuple bassoon duo for students at UNC Chapel Hill, West Virginia University, Northwestern University, University of Michigan, University of New Hampshire, South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts, and others.

Rachael began her bassoon studies as a 10th grader with Janet Polk, and continued at Manhattan School of Music (B.M.) and Yale School of Music (M.M.) with Frank Morelli.

Micah Killion, Trumpet, Co-Founder of Up and At Them, maintains careers as a performing musician, an active educator, and an arts administrator. As a trumpeter, Micah received his B.M. in Trumpet Performance from the Juilliard School in 2002, where he studied with Phil Smith of the New York Philharmonic. He has performed or recorded with a wide array of artists and groups including The New Jersey, Colorado, Charleston, Princeton and Riverside Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Philharmonia Virtuosi, The Strathmere Ensemble, The Artemis Chamber Ensemble, Disney World’s Christmas Brass, John Medeski, Mark Gould and Pink Baby Monster, Diana Ross, Guster, and Shakira. Mr. Killion has attended The Chautauqua Festival and the Spoleto Festival (Italy). In addition, he has toured internationally with the American Sinfonietta, and has toured Russia extensively as principal trumpet of the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra. He is also Co-founder of Orbital Brass, and The Practical Trumpet Society.

As an educator, Micah received his Master’s Degree in Music Education from Teachers College at Columbia University in 2004. He has given music workshops for American Ballet Theater, Columbia University, The University of Michigan, The Bowling Green State University, and has helped to design outreach concerts for schools in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Houston, and Moscow. In addition, Micah is currently on brass faculty at Third Street Music School, Greenwich House Music School, and the Music Advancement Program at the Juilliard School. He is an adjunct faculty member at the High School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan, is a Teaching Artist for Midori and Friends, and is the Senior Music Instructor at the Heart O’ Hills music camp in Oklahoma.

As an administrator, Micah has been education project manager for the American Young Artists Orchestra for three years, and has implemented concerts and educational ventures internationally. He is coordinator of the winds and brass program at Third Street Music School and, in addition to being Production Manager for Dave Douglas’ Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) in New York City, Micah also sits on the board of directors for the festival.

Adrienne Kim, Piano, her recent performances include recitals in New York's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Bargemusic, Boston's Symphony Hall, Washington D.C.'s Phillips Gallery and Ravinia's Rising Stars series in Chicago.  She has appeared as soloist with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra of Beijing, the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico, the Portland Chamber Orchestra, and the Richmond Orchestra.  Ms. Kim was a member of Chamber Music Society Two, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's residency program for emerging young artists, and has performed with David Shifrin, Daniel Phillips, Ida Kavafian, Edgar Meyer, Cho-Liang Lin, Fred Sherry, Lucy Shelton, Wynton Marsalis, Paquito Rivera, and members of the Brentano, Borromeo, Cassatt, Mendelssohn, Meridian and Miami String Quartets.  Additionally, Ms. Kim has performed with the New York Chamber Ensemble, Garden City Chamber Music Society, Lighthouse Chamber Players, Salt Bay Chamberfest, Carnegie Chamber Players, Bronx Arts Ensemble, the Sherman Chamber Ensemble, and is the resident pianist of the Seal Bay Festival in Maine. With the West End Chamber Ensemble, ensemble-in-residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts, she participated in the National Endowment for the
Arts/Chamber Music America Rural Residency. She has recorded the solo and chamber works of Daniel S. Godfrey with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on the Koch label and the violin and piano sonatas of Charles Ives with violinist Lisa Tipton on Capstone Records. She and Ms. Tipton also present the “Made in America” series at Weill Hall.  Her newest CD of the violin and piano sonatas of Niels Gade with violinist Katie Wolfe, was released this fall on Centaur. Ms. Kim studied with
Menahem Pressler and Leon Fleisher and is on the faculty of Syracuse University.

Kenneth Kwo, Viola, was a double major in math and viola at Oberlin College and went on to the University of Iowa to earn his Master's degree in viola. His primary teachers were David Becker, Kathryn Plummer and William Preucil. Ken has been a member of the Florida Orchestra since 1984.

Anthony Mazzocchi, Trombone, A native of Maplewood, New Jersey, Anthony Mazzocchi began studying trombone at the age of eight. While receiving Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Manhattan School of Music in NYC, he studied with Per Brevig of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Steven Norrell, David Finlayson and Joseph Alessi of the New York Philharmonic. He received the Janet Schenck Award for Outstanding Musicianship from the school in 1997.

Mr. Mazzocchi has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, San Diego Symphony, San Diego Opera, Riverside Symphony, and Key West Symphony. He has performed in various Broadway shows and can be heard on numerous recordings and movie soundtracks including "Mimic" and "Live with the Brian Wilson Orchestra".

Mr. Mazzocchi currently serves as Trombone Professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey. He is also on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Division. His private students have been accepted to Juilliard, Eastman, Manhattan School of Music, and Mannes College of Music. He is a guest clinician with the New York and New Jersey Youth Symphonies, and a guest conductor for the Brooklyn College Wind Ensemble and various honor bands in the New York area.

Mr. Mazzocchi has acted as a soloist and clinician at New York University, Montclair State University, Brooklyn College, and Cal Tech University. He had solo performances at North Carolina School of the Arts and CalArts in 2007. Mr. Mazzocchi is on the Board of Advisors to the International Association for Jazz Education, and also serves as Staff Representative to Kinhaven’s Board of Directors. He resides in Maplewood, NJ with his wife, Deborah, and son Luca. Mr. Mazzocchi is sponsored by the Conn-Selmer Company.

Deborah Buck Mazzocchi, Violin. Described by Strad Magazine as "particularly impressive for her surpassing degree of imagination and vibrant sound," Deborah Buck has built a strong musical presence in New York City. As a recitalist, chamber musician, and concertmaster, she has a full and varied career that has taken her to the major cities of the United States, South America, and Europe. As recitalist, Ms. Buck has been featured at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, on the Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago, on “An Evening of Chamber Music” at Alice Tully Hall in New York City, and is a frequent guest on “Sunday’s Live”, a live broadcast from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Ms. Buck was a recent guest soloist with the Little Orchestra Society at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, the West Virginia Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra in Los Angeles.

Ms. Buck is a member of the internationally acclaimed Lark Quartet. Now in its twentieth season, the Lark Quartet just completed the Beethoven quartet cycle, hosted by the American Beethoven Society at Hunter College in New York City. Ms. Buck has served as concertmaster of the St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra, the Philadelphia Virtuosi, the North South Chamber Orchestra, the Jupiter Symphony, and has served as guest-concertmaster for the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Long Island Philharmonic orchestras. Deborah is a chamber music coach for the New York Youth Symphony.

Ms. Buck is a winner of the 1996 Jascha Heifetz Violin Prize, the Corpus Christi International Violin Competition, the Sorantin Award, and a Leni Fe Bland Career Grant. As a student of Dorothy Delay, Deborah graduated from the Juilliard School where she was awarded the Martin Kaltman Foundation Scholarship and a Starling Foundation Scholarship. She completed her Master’s Degree under the tutelage of Robert Lipsett at the University of Southern California.

Aundrey Mitchell, Viola, has performed throughout the United States, South America, and Europe as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician. She has appeared at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully, Merkin Hall, and the Kimmel Center.  She attended the American Conservatoire at Fontainebleau, France and the Taos School of Music festivals. She graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music with both her BM and her MM in addition to post graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music.  In 1998, she was awarded her DMA from Rutgers University.  Her primary teachers were Michael Tree, Karen Ritscher, and Lucian Joel.  She has taught at Moravian College, Eastern Music Festival, Westminster Choir College, and the PA Academy of Music.  She is an active chamber musician in the New York and Philadelphia areas.

Born in Italy, cellist Alberto Parrini has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia. He joined the American Chamber Players in 2004 and tours with them throughout the United States. Also, he is a member of the chamber ensemble Proteus. Since 2007 he serves as Principal cellist with the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. Mr. Parrini spent the 2002-03 season as cellist of the St. Lawrence String Quartet, while teaching  at Stanford University. Prior to that he was Assistant Principal cellist with the Richmond Symphony. He has toured extensively with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project and performed with Continuum, Lenape Chamber Ensemble, New Jersey Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra,  Metamorphosen and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. His festival appearances include Evian, Tanglewood, Taos, Verbier, Ottawa, Montreal, San Miguel de Allende, Spoleto U.S.A., Music@Menlo, The Weekend of Chamber Music and the Piatigorsky seminar. He has taught cello and chamber music at the American Festival for the Arts (Houston,TX). Mr. Parrini’s principal studies were with Timothy Eddy,  Joel Krosnick, David Soyer and Colin Carr;  he is a graduate of the Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School.

Peter Rovit, Violin, (BM with High Distinction, Indiana University; MM, Hartt School; Professional Studies, Juilliard: DMA, SUNY at Stony Brook) was among the last students of Josef Gingold at Indiana University where he also studied Baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie.  His other teachers have included Mitchell Stern, Philip Setzer, Cho-Liang Lin, Paul Kantor, and Donald Weilerstein.  Mr. Rovit has been the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships including the Kuttner Scholarship at Indiana University, the C.V. Starr Scholarship at the Juilliard School, and the Aspen Music Festival's String Fellowship.  As a chamber musician, recitalist, and soloist he has performed throughout the United States and at the Spring in Saint Petersburg Festival in Russia.  Performances have included concert appearances on the Aspen Music Festival’s Young Artist Concert series, with the International Sejong Soloists, and on Baroque violin with the Rebel Ensemble and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra.  He has been a recipient of the prestigious Montgomery Symphony Fellowship in Alabama which involved performing as concertmaster and soloist with the symphony and giving numerous concert appearances throughout the area. 
            Mr. Rovit has been on the string faculty of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Alabama.  He has been a member of the Quartet Oklahoma, Associate Concertmaster of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and Concertmaster of the Tuscaloosa Symphony.  A concerto competition winner at both the Hartt School and at SUNY Stony Brook, Mr. Rovit has also performed as a soloist with the Montgomery Symphony, the Fort Smith Symphony, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and the Tuscaloosa Symphony.  He is currently the Violin Professor at Syracuse University.

David Sapadin, Clarinet, is an active freelance musician in the New York City area. He has appeared with such groups as the Metropolitan Opera, American Ballet Theater, New York City Opera, American Symphony and several regional orchestras around the tri-state area. Mr. Sapadin can be heard on commercially available recordings of the Metropolitan Opera (London) and Rufus Wainwright (Dream works). He is on the faculty of Wilkes University and Hunter College. His principal teachers were Mitchell Lurie, Yehuda Gilad, David Krakauer and Ricardo Morales.

Nicolas Scherzinger, Composer in Residence, is the chair of the Composition and Theory Department at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University where he teaches composition,  music theory, improvisation, and digital music. In addition to his work as a professional composer and educator, he is active as a performer of improvisatory works for saxophone and interactive computer. Scherzinger received a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the Eastman School of Music and has studied composition with Roger Briggs, David Liptak, Augusta Read Thomas, Christopher Rouse, Allan Schindler, and Joseph Schwantner. He has received awards and commissions from ASCAP, SOCAN, the Barlow Endowment, the Jerome Foundation, the Canada Council, and the Eastman School of Music, and his music has been performed throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Taiwan, China, and Europe. Recently, his works have been premiered or performed at such venues as the International Viola Conference, the World Saxophone Congress (2000, 2003), the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference (2004, 2006), the International Double Reed Conference, the Aspen Music Festival, and at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Many distinguished artists have performed his works, including John Graham, Bradley Lubman, David Gilbert, Christopher Marks, Randall Hall, Julia Nolan, the Cassatt String Quartet, and the Meridian Phase II ensemble. Scherzinger has had works broadcast on WCNY, WBFO and CBC RadioTwo, and recorded on Raven Compact Disks and Innova Recordings. Scherzinger is a member of ASCAP, the American Music Center, and the Society of Composers Inc. and his works are published by ScherziMusic Press. Scherzinger currently lives in Syracuse, New York and New York City with his wife, pianist Adrienne Kim.

Peter Schultz, Flute, is on the faculty of Phillips Exeter Academy, where he teaches music theory, coaches chamber music and conducts the Chamber Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. He completed his doctorate in flute performance at the Manhattan School of Music in 2002 as a student of Michael Parloff. He has been a winner of the New York Flute Club’s Young Artist Competition and the National Flute Association’s Professional Performer’s competition.

After completing his Master’s degree at SUNY Stony Brook with Samuel Baron, Peter joined the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music’s pre-college division. He continued his study of the flute for many years with Eleanor Lawrence and as a regular participant in the seminars of Marcel Moyse. An active freelancer for many years, Peter has performed with the Bergen Philharmonic, Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, Bethlehem Bach Festival, and the New Hampshire Symphony. Peter teaches and performs at Kinhaven’s Adult Chamber Music Workshop, and both the Junior and Senior sessions.

Mimi Solomon, Piano, has been heard as recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral soloist in United States as well as in China, Japan and Europe. As a soloist and recitalist, she has performed in major venues in New York, Boston, Chicago, New Haven, and Amsterdam and has been featured on radio and television broadcasts including the prestigious McGraw-Hill Young Artist's Showcase. Festival appearances have included invitations to music festivals on both sides of the Atlantic such as Santander, IMS Prussia Cove, Ravinia, Taos, Norfolk, Yellow Barn, and Aspen.

Recent highlights include a recital tour in China, a solo appearance with the Shanghai Symphony and chamber music concerts in France, Italy, Denmark, and the United States.
Winner of the Chopin Prize in the 2000 Gina Bachauer Piano Competition at the Juilliard School, Ms. Solomon also took top prizes in the Yale Friends of Music, the Chiang Wen Yeh International Chinese Music, and the Kosciuzsko Foundation Chopin competitions. She received Yale's Selden Junior and Bach Society prizes.

Ms. Solomon graduated cum laude from Yale University and went on to receive a Masters of Music from Juilliard. Her main teachers were Peter Frankl and Robert McDonald. She subsequently spent a year studying in Europe on a Beebe Grant. She resides in Paris with support from the Woolley Scholarship from the Fondation des Etats-Unis.

Naho Tsutsui Parrini, Violin, is an active recitalist and a chamber musician in the New York Metropolitan area where she is a member of the Transfiguration Ensemble and the Contemporary Chamber Players. She has given solo and chamber music recitals throughout the United States, Japan, Germany and Bulgaria. Her live performances have been featured nationally on WQXR and Bulgarian National Television. She received her Bachelor of Music from the North Carolina School of the Arts, where she was a winner of a numerous scholarships and the Concerto Competition. She received her Master of Music and her Doctorate of Musical Arts from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  Her principle teachers included Kevin Lawrence, Mitchell Stern, Pamela Frank and Philip Setzer. She is on the faculty at the Ross School in East Hampton, and is the former Artistic Director of the Saturday Academy at Ross. She is a Resident Teaching Artist at the Bloomingdale School of Music in New York City and a member of the Hyperion String Quartet.

Carolyn Wahl, French Horn, graduated from Baldwin Wallace Conservatory and studied with Dale Clevenger, Martin Morris and Lowell Shaw. She was a member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra. She is currently a member of the Florida Orchestra and is on the faculty of St. Petersburg College, Pinellas County School for the Arts, and coaches brass quintets.

Mary Watt, Oboe, received her bachelor and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where she was the winner of the Walter Naumberg Orchestral Prize. She studied with Ronald Roseman at Juilliard, Richard Killmer at the Aspen Music Festival and with John Mack prior to coming to Juilliard. After teaching at Virginia Tech University, she returned to New York, where she was active as a performer with orchestras, chamber music groups and on Broadway. As Principal Oboe with the Bethlehem Bach Choir, she has performed at Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall and recorded several CDs. Since moving to New England, she has continued to teach and perform, playing regularly with the New England Bach Festival and New Hampshire, Vermont and Springfield Symphonies. She teaches oboe and coaches chamber music at Phillips Exeter Academy. In addition to teaching oboe at Kinhaven’s Senior and Junior sessions, Mary directs the Adult Chamber Music Workshop.

Patrick Wood, Violin. British-Mexican violinist Patrick Wood studied as a postgraduate at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and holds a BA and MA with honors in Modern Languages from Oxford University. He was a student of Erick Friedman and Eugene Drucker in the US. He has performed in major venues all over the world including Carnegie Hall, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, the Royal Festival Hall in London, and the Lausanne Academy in Switzerland. Patrick Wood performs with the NY Philomusica, The Vermont Mozart Festival, the New York Chamber Soloists, and the Chatham-Wood Duo. Mr. Wood has taught at the Westminster Conservatory Young artist’s Program in Princeton, NJ, the Lawrenceville School, the Delbarton School and worked with the New Jersey Youth Symphony. He presently teaches in the Music Department of Princeton University.