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| Strings Excell Faculty |
| Ellen Eager - Camp Director/ Orchestra/ Chamber Music/ Photographer Orchestra Conductor/ Lancaster County Junior Orchestra/ Orchestra Conductor/Lancaster County Music Camp/ Cellist/ free-lance. |
| 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. |
| Stephen Lavender - Chamber Music/ Recreation Steve has been a cello instructor at Messiah and Lebanon Valley Colleges and currently directs the string program at Holy Name of Jesus School in Harrisburg. Free-lances extensively in Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg. |
| Richard Ney - 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 Lebanon Valley College. 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. |
| 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 - 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. |
| Kim Lansinger Ankney - A string teacher and choir director at Lancaster Country Day School. She is an active cellist in the area, performing with several local colleges, churches, and symphonies. She is a graduate of Temple University and the University of Michigan where she studied with Jeffrey Solow and Erling Bengtsson, respectively. Most recently, Kim is enjoying married life with her new husband, Matt. |
| Emily Murphy - Emily holds her Bachelor of Arts in Music from West Virginia University. After graduating from WVU, she completed training for Suzuki books 1-4 under Martha Shackford. While completing her teacher training, Miss Murphy taught privately in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. Currently she attends Millersville University for teaching certification in music education, maintains a private violin and viola studio through Menchey Music, and plays weddings and receptions with her trio, the Drei Korden Trio. |
| Rachel Kelley- Rachel is a recent graduate of Oberlin College and Conservatory where she received degrees in Violin Performance and German Literature. While at Oberlin she played under Franz Welser-Moest, Simon Rattle and David Zinman and was a member of an orchestral tour of China. Rachel is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to teach both English and violin in Berlin, Germany for the 2008-2009 academic year. A native of Lancaster, Rachel graduated from McCaskey High School in 2003. |
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