Rachel Cross is a midwest-based singer, actor, harpist, voice teacher, and music director. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Pedagogy and Performance and a partial Masters in Fine Arts in Voice Pedagogy and Speech Science. During her multi-year residency in the...
Kendra Switzer is a coloratura soprano from Joplin, MO. New to the Lawrence area, she is pursuing her second masters degree in Musicology at the University of Kansas. She graduated with her first masters degree in Vocal Music Performance from Pittsburg State...
Biography Dylan Bassett is a composer, percussionist, and teacher. Dylan holds at BA in Music and an MA in Global and International Studies. Over the past 30 years Dylan has performed throughout the U.S, Guinea, Ghana, & Senegal with a score of talented musicians...
A lifelong musician, Steven grew up in Huntington, IN and has been teaching piano and horn since 2000. Since then he has had the opportunity to work with students of all ages in individual and group settings. He studied composition at Oberlin Conservatory, jazz piano...
Rachel Black is a versatile singer with a musical background ranging from singer/songwriter to blues to opera. Raised in Washington D.C., Rachel Black began performing at the age of six and started writing at fourteen. She holds a Bachelor’s in Music from Boston’s...
Caroline Guidry is an active performer, teacher, and collaborator. She has extensive musical experience as both an accomplished pianist and violinist. Caroline loves the opportunity to perform a wide variety of genres and styles, including classical, jazz, hymns and...
David has played music professionally since junior high school in various groups and styles. His most recent ventures include the Lawrence City Band, Ottawa Symphony, several rock and country dance bands, and a ballroom dance band called the Prairie Dogs. After...
Ariel Morris is a Lawrence-based coloratura soprano. She earned her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance in 2011 from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she studied with Soprano Alice Hopper. Ariel performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra...
Avery has been learning to make noise professionally since he was given his first violin at age four. As a recent graduate in Violin Performance from the University of Kansas School of Music, he has devoted himself to a wide array of musical traditions and...
Michael Paull was born and raised in Ft. Collins, Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. He moved to Lawrence in 1993 ("I thought I'd go see what the horizon looked like.") where he has lived ever since. In January of 2003 he became a staff teacher at the...
Annie Schneller began studying the violin at the age of 4 under the private instruction of Ruth Sadasivan. In theyears since, Annie has accumulated honors including winning first place at the MTNA Kansas Young ArtistStrings Competition, an honorable mention at the...
Multi-instrumentalist Jenn Thomas has spent the last two decades performing and teaching in classrooms, concert halls, bars, and street corners on three continents. Equally comfortable in the classical world and beyond, Jenn teaches violin, viola, cello, and string...
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