Teachers  (page 4 of 5)
Woodwinds and Brass
 
   
Catherine DeBoeser
(Flute)
 
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"CMS offers high quality instruction in all areas within a positive learning environment! My own children are very active with several different groups, including the CMS Chorus - I highly recommend the musical experience CMS has to offer."

BA Performance, Shenandoah University - Magna cum Laude; M.A. C.W. Post, Long Island University, Summa Cum Laude in Music History. Ms. DeBoeser performance includes fifteen years as 3rd Flute/Piccolo with the Allentown Symphony. Past teachers include: Dr. Frances Lapp Averitt, Sam Baron, Julius Baker, and Susan Deaver.

   
Henry Guzevich
(Brass)
 
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Henry has been performing across the country as a ‘Road Musician’ since he was thirteen years of age. In addition to performance and teaching, Henry runs a recording studio. He has received three Grammy nominations with the Polka Family. On August 4, 2007, Hank was inducted into the Polka Hall of Fame. Mr. Guzevich has an associate degree in computer technology.

   
Lauren P. Nicholas
(Saxophone, Clarinet)
 
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MM The Boston Conservatory, Saxophone Performance; B.M. Saxophone Performance, Moravian College. Prior to her position at CMS, Lauren taught saxophone and clarinet lessons in the Massachusetts public schools of Boston, Brookline, Hopkinton, and Norwood. While at Moravian, Lauren studied saxophone with Neil Wetzel and clarinet with Christopher DiSanto. She was the recipient of the Steven K. VanAuken Memorial Prize in Music Performance, the T. Edgar Shields Memorial Prize in Music Performance, and winner of the 1999 Moravian College Concerto Competition.

While at The Boston Conservatory, she studied with renowned saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky where she performed much contemporary music in solo, chamber and large group settings. Lauren has also performed in various new music festivals and concerts where compositions by today's leading composers were featured and or premiered. For more information, please contact Lauren via e-mail: lpnicholas@mac.com

   
George R. Schermerhorn (French Horn)  
(return to teacher list) MM Yale University School of Music; B.S. Hartwick College; Doctoral studies at Syracuse University and Indiana University.
Former Executive Director CMS.
   
John Schwartz (Clarinet)  
  MM Temple University; B.S. West Chester University.
   
Dr. Nora Suggs
(Flute)
 
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Dr. Suggs is a graduate of Houston’s Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine, with extensive private education in music and degrees in biology, English literature, medicine, and surgery. She has played in England, Canada, and Japan, and throughout the United States. Dr. Suggs is a founding member of the Lehigh Valley’s chamber music ensemble SATORI, and a regular performer of both traditional and contemporary chamber works. In addition to numerous solo performances, she is active as a teacher, recitalist, and free-lance musician, and performs on both modern and baroque flute. Dr. Suggs is on the music faculty at Bethlehem’s Moravian College, plays pennywhistles, flute, and uillean pipes with Emerald City, a Celtic/rock band, performs regularly with Two Part Invention, a classical guitar/flute duo, and is studying shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese flute.

   
   
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