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Lisa Caliri
B.M., The Boston Conservatory; Performance Diploma, The Barcelona Conservatory; Graduate studies at New England Conservatory, Harvard University. Piano study with Seymour Bernstein, Lily Dumont, Eugene List, and Herbert Stessin. Performances at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City, The Aspen Music Festival, and in France, Spain, The Canary Islands, Thailand, and Taiwan. Orchestral soloist with the Czech Radio Orchestra, Medford String Orchestra, Salem Philharmonic, and Melrose Symphony Orchestra. Recorded for Albany Records and Centorino Productions. Radio broadcasts in Italy, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and Romania. Top prize winner of the Pinault International Piano Competition, Clara Wells Piano Competition, Crescendo Young Artist Competition, recipient of the Yamaha Scholarship, and Sigma Alpha Iota Professional Development Grant. Published article in Pan Pipes Magazine and panelist for "A Contemporary View" sponsored by Steinway Pianos. Has presented masterclasses at the Siam School of Music in Thailand and judged the Music Teachers National Association and New England Piano Teachers Association piano competitions.
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William Cutter
Dr. William C. Cutter is Director of Choral Activities at The Boston Conservatory as well as lecturer in music and Director of Choral Activities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is conductor of the M.I.T. Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus. He has also held academic posts at the Boston University School for the Arts, the University of Lowell, and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. For five summers he was conductor of the Boston University Young Artists Chorus of the Tanglewood Institute, and was music director and conductor of the Opera Laboratory Theater Company, as well as founder and music director of the vocal chamber ensemble CANTO, which specialized in contemporary choral music. He has prepared choruses for John Williams and Keith Lockhart for the Boston Pops. With degrees in composition, Cutter maintains an active career as a composer with recent performances by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Boston Pops, the Toronto Children's Chorus, the Cathedral of St. Philip Choir in Atlanta, Georgia, Melodious Accord of New York City, Opera Omaha, and the Bedford Symphony. He has taught voice at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School.
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James Dalton
B.A. w/honors, Rutgers University; M.M., University of Idaho; Composition studies with Louie White, Neely Bruce, Robert Dickow, Dan Bukvich. Guitar studies with Michael Newman, John Abercrombie. Master Classes with Christopher Parkening, Angel Romero, Benjamin Verdery. Performances (guitar, mandolin, banjo) with Maggi Smith-Dalton (soprano), with the 92nd Street "Y" Chamber Orchestra, Indian Hill Symphony, New England Mandolin Ensemble. Compositions performed in US, Canada and Europe by Idaho Brass, Toronto Camerata, Ensemble Decadanse; at Kansas Symposium of New Music, Musiques Nouvelles, Lunel, France. Published by Wolfhead, Fenwick Parva, Katrid. Works in anthologies: The Albany Carillon Book, Carillon 2002. First prize, 1997 Toronto Camerata Competition. Faculty: Cape Cod Mandolin Festival. Former faculty: National Guitar Workshop, University of Idaho, Philadelphia College, Fitchburg State, Merrimack College, Indian Hill. Book: Mandolin for Beginners (Alfred 2001). Broadcasts: Connecticut Public Radio, Idaho Public Television. Member: Pi Kappa Lambda, Society for American Music, Classical Mandolin Society of America.
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Martha Rogers
A fulltime music teacher in Lexington Public Schools, Martha Rogers has also served as parttime instructor on the faculties of Boston Conservatory, U.Mass. Lowell, U.New Hampshire and Lesley University. Martha is licensed in Dalcroze Eurhythmics from Lesley University and Carnegie-Mellon. She has taught workshops nationally for both music educators and classroom teachers. Awards include Society for General Music of Massachusetts Award for Excellence 2008; Lexington Teacher of the Year for 2007; and New England Water Environment Public Educator Award for 2003.
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Stephen Halloran
B.M. Eastman School of Music; M.M. and D.M.A., Boston University, Composition studies with Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwanter, Lukas Foss, and Stephen Albert. Awards include the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, multiple ASCAP grants, the Renee B. Fisher Award for The Galilee Hitchhiker for piano, the Princess Grace Award for the film score for Poet. Professional pianist and published computer programmer. Chair of the Theory Department at The Rivers School, theory courses taught at Boston University and Tanglewood.
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John Murphree

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Karolina Rojahn
Karolina Rojahn B.M., M.M The Boston Conservatory. Piano studies with Michael Lewin and in Europe with Kazimierz Gierzod, Paul Badura-Skoda, Milosz Magin, Regina Smendzianka. Ms. Rojahn is a vivid performer of new music. She performs regularly with new music groups around Boston including Ludovico Ensemble, new music ensemble in residence at the Boston Conservatory. She recorded works of contemporary composers, Carl Vollrath and Jason V. Barraba with clarinetist, Richard Stolzman for MMC Recordings; as well as solo Preludes of Andy Vores to be released in 2009. She is currently recording solo and chamber music works of Michael J. Evans for Parma Recordings. Faculty, Boston Conservatory and Rivers School Conservatory.
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Rudolf Rojahn
B.M. (percussion) and M.M. (composition) Boston Conservatory. Composer-in-Residence for the Ludovico Ensemble. Commissions include the Quincy Symphony Orchestra and the Arbelos Piano Trio. In spring 2007 his song cycle Lust based on the novel by Efriede Jelinek was staged by Sanford Sylvan for The Boston Conservatory's Opera Department. Faculty positions at The New England Conservatory, Division of Preparatory and Continuing Education and The Brookline Music School
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Bert Yocom
MM, The Boston Conservatory, BM, University of Arkansas. Piano study with Jung-Ja Kim, Beatriz Pilapil, Timothy McFarland, Ozan Marsh, Jared Jacobsen, and Errol Haun. Performances in Boston, New York, Arkansas, California and Italy. Duo performances with Linda Papatopoli at Boston College, Eastern Nazarene College and The Boston Conservatory. Ensemble performance at Wellesley College Composers and Chamber Music Conference. Performance with Jamaica Plain Symphony Orchestra. Semi-finalist of the Joanna Hodges Piano Conference and Competition, the Concorso Pianistico Internazionale Alfredo Casella and the Arkansas State Piano Competition. Scholarships to Chautauqua Institution and Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony. Recipient of the Tovey Award. Piano faculty, Handel & Haydn Society.
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