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| Ellen Eager - Camp Director/ Orchestra/ Chamber Music/ Photographer Free-lance Cellist / Private Cello studio /Orchestra conductor / Orchestra director of the Lancaster County Junior Orchestra from 1990 to 2011. Retired public school orchestra director/music teacher. Mrs. Eager holds a B.S.in Music Education and an M.M. in music performance |
| Konrad Fritz - Orchestra/ Chamber Music/ Dress Rehearsal Coordinator Orchestra and choir director at Manor Middle School in Lancaster. Plays viola for Schuylkill, York and Central Pennsylvania Symphonies. Vocalist , singing with such groups as the Lancaster and Harrisburg Opera Companies, the Susquehanna Chorale, The Pennsylvania Academy of Music, and area churches. |
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| Stephen Lavender - Chamber Music/ Recreation Steve has been a cello instructor at Messiah and Lebanon Valley Colleges and directed the string program at Holy Name of Jesus School in Harrisburg for twenty-five years. Free-lances extensively in Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg. In addition to Strings Excell, he is on the faculty of the Elizabethtown College Music Camp. |
| Richard Ney - Orchestra/ Chamber Music/ Recreation String teacher/orchestra director in the Ephrata Area School district middle and senior high schools. Performs with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. Rick is also the conductor of the Reading Symphony Junior String Orchestra. |
| Aimee Pavlesich - Earley - Chamber Music/ Recreation Teaches strings at the Manheim Township elementary schools. She also conducts the middle and high school cello choir in the same district. |
| Laurie Haines Reese - Chamber Music/Jazz Teaches cello at Millersville University. Free-lances extensively on the east coast and in Los Angles, Miami, Seattle, Hawaii, New York and Europe. Performs with The Reese Project, Susquehanna, MuZette, Azure, and Wyndfall . |
| Thomas Grant Reese - Composer/Jazz Worked with the Arts in Education and Arts in Special Education since 1987. He free-lances in many venues as a solo artist, jazz musician and educator, in addition to performing with MuZette, The Reese Project, Susquehanna, Azure, and Wyndfall. |
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| Elizabeth Lavender - Assistant to the Director/ Orchestra/ Chamber Music Former assistant principal cellist with Lancaster Symphony . Active free-lance cellist in the Lancaster,York, and Harrisburg area. Beth has taught 4th, 5th, and 6th grade strings in the Hempfield School District since 1982. |
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| Amy Martin Burkholder - Chamber Music/ Recreation Teaches violin and viola students in a private studio and also teaches a private studio of violin and viola students at Lancaster Country Day School. She has performed solos in Bermuda and Puerto Rico. She has performed with chamber groups in Puerto Rico, Austria and China. |
| Emily Sheffer - Chamber Music/ Recreation Emily holds her Bachelor of Arts in Music from West Virginia University and her PA Music Education Certification from Millersville University. She is also a Suzuki-Registered violin and viola instructor for books 1-4. For the past six years Mrs Sheffer has taught privately in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. Currently Emily is the string educator for two elementary schools and the hign school in the Conestoga Valley School District and a free-lance performer in the Lancaster area. |
| Melody Brubaker - Chamber Music/ Receation Melody performs regulary with the York Symphony Orchestra and Allegro chamber orchestra of Lancaster, and has also performed with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Opera Lancaster, and the Central PA Symphony. She is a private violin instructor and free-lance musician in the greater Lancaster area. A string teacher in the Lower Dauphin School District, Melody was recently honored as the 2010 Outstanding New String Teacher for the PA/DE chapter of the American String Teachers Association. |
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