FACULTY

Max Wolpert

ARMP Faculty, RRMA Faculty, Executive Assistant

Fiddler, composer, and storyteller Max Wolpert conjures up monsters and myth where the traditional, classical, and theatrical meet. Drawing from tradition both musical and mythological, Max makes music inspired by stories from around the world.  Whether built upon the verve and bounce of an Irish jig, the endearing asymmetry of a Welsh pipe tune, or the drive of a Virginian breakdown, Max’s pieces are crafted with taut detail and a flair for the dramatic honed over years as a pit musician, conductor, and orchestrator for theatrical productions. Max’s first viola concerto, Giants, wields the unsung hero of the orchestra to call up singing harps, dancing stormclouds, and a fiendishly ticking clock inexorably counting down to the end of the world. His two string quartets, Myths and Song of Four, serve as pedagogical tools to introduce the classical musician to traditional forms and improvisation, and in performance bring forth an Irish war goddess, two enchanted ravens, a young girl with dreams of piracy, and a ferociously contrapuntal chase through a twisting labyrinth. Max is dedicated to music education and a passionate advocate for new music.  He teaches privately and at workshops throughout New England and the Midwest, and serves on the faculty for the Rocky Ridge Music Center.  Max encourages his students and collaborators to explore stories and traditions that spark the imagination, and to bring forth the outlandish, the macabre, and the magic inherent in music. For more information, please visit www.maxwolpertmusic.com.

Margaret Patterson

RRMA Faculty

Margie Patterson has over 25 years teaching experience at all levels. She received her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder where she studied with Dr. David Korevaar. A prizewinner in the Simone Belsky Competition, she is in demand as a soloist and collaborative pianist. Many of her former students are pursuing careers in music as well as enjoying music as an avocation.

SoYoung Lee

Executive Director, APS Faculty (Session 1 only), RRMA Faculty

SoYoung Lee, Executive/Music Director at Rocky Ridge Music Center, received her Doctorate in Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has held director positions at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory Adult Education & Preparatory Department, Millikin University Preparatory Division, and the Boulder Arts Academy & Boulder Ballet. A strong believer in the concept of artist as entrepreneur, she cofounded two organizations: Colorado-based AirTurn, a company dedicated to empowering musicians through technology; and Notes at 9,000 at Winter Park, a multi-genre music competition that launches emerging musicians by providing concert opportunities, funding, and mentoring. She is passionate about building community through the arts, and serves currently as a trustee on the board of Boulder County Arts Alliance and as a member of the Estes Arts Presents Task Force.

An award-winning pianist and a Regents scholar, SoYoung is a recipient of the Ernő Dohnányi Piano Prize and the Gwendolyn Koldofsky Accompanying Fellowship at University of Southern California. She recently released a CD, In This World, with flutist Claudia Anderson. Equally at home as a teacher, she served on the music faculty at Millikin University and State University of New York, Fredonia, and was a visiting Piano Pedagogy faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. SoYoung enjoys her multi-faceted career as a performing artist, administrator, teacher, producer, and arts advocate.

Allyson Fleck

RRMA Faculty

Allyson Fleck is currently Midsummer’s Music Festival Assistant Artistic Director and Violist in beautiful Door County, Wisconsin. Recently, Allyson won Assistant Principal Viola in the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra. She is active in the freelance community playing with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, substitute viola with the Colorado Symphony and Boulder Philharmonic. Additionally, Allyson teaches strings at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Greeley. In the summer of 2015 Allyson moved to Colorado from Atlanta. She joined the Kennesaw State University (Atlanta) music faculty in 2006 where she directed the chamber music program and taught studio viola. Allyson continues as a member of the Atlanta Ballet. As a violist in Atlanta she played with Georgia Symphony and was a substitute with the Atlanta Symphony and Atlanta Opera. Allyson performed with the Emory Chamber players and Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Festival.

Allyson received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Viola Performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her viola instructors include Sally Chisholm and Manuel Diaz. Previously, Allyson was a semi-finalist of the 2002 Fischoff Competition as a member of the Galena Quartet, the graduate quartet-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In Wisconsin, she was a member of the Madison Symphony, Madison Opera and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestras. Ms. Fleck was Assistant Professor of Music at Beloit College and on the faculty at Ripon College. She also was a guest performer at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, Token Creek Music Festival where she performed with John Harbison, and was a guest artist at the Madeline Island Chamber Music Festival.

Performances include a recital at Carnegie’s Weill Hall in New York performing Berio’s Folk Songs, performing the Telemann Concerto in G Major and Hindemith’s Trauermusik with the Novgorod String Orchestra in Russia and Bartok’s Concerto for Viola with the Ripon College Orchestra. Allyson has performed as soloist with the KSU Symphony Orchestra and the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Conner Hollingsworth

RRMA Faculty

Conner Hollingsworth earned his Bachelor of Music degree in double bass performance from Northeastern Illinois University in 2012 studying with Greg Sarchet of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. While living in Chicago Conner served as principal bass for the Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra, Classical Symphony Orchestra, and Lakeshore Symphony Orchestra. Some of Conner’s performance highlights include an American premiere of the Filipino composer Felipe de Leon’s opera Noli Me Tangere with da Corneto Opera and a performance of the Weber Clarinet Concertino with soloist Anthony McGill of the Metropolitan Opera. As a jazz bassist, Conner has enjoyed sharing the stage with acclaimed artists such as Orbert Davis, Mark Levine, Don Rader, Bill Reichenbach, and Tia Fuller. Conner established his presence in the Chicago music scene as both an electric and upright bassist for a number of local bands and creative projects.

Beyond his active performance schedule, Conner taught private piano lessons for several years at a Chicago public school and also worked in the music library for the Grant Park Music Festival. Conner currently serves as a mentor for the Colorado Conservatory of the Jazz Arts and is pursuing his Master of Music degree as a student of Paul Erhard at the University of Colorado.

Dallas Thornton

Dallas Thornton is a Boulder native and a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. With over 18 years of experience studying and playing music, the joy of sound is in his blood. He has written hundreds of songs, produced several original albums, and performed for audiences in 9 countries. His love of meeting people and of learning and teaching make lessons with Dallas a warm and easy experience, regardless of age or skill level.

“Getting involved in music as a child changed the course of my life, and is a great anchor and joy for me. I care deeply to facilitate that transformation for other people, young and old. That’s why I teach.”

For more on Dallas: www.whoisdallasthornton.com

Jessica Chen

RRMA Faculty

A native of Rochester, New York, Jessica Chen is a dedicated and accomplished violinist, violin teacher, and arts advocate. In her fifth year of professionally performing and teaching, Chen is committed to connecting with audiences through rich and unique musical experiences. As a teacher, Chen provides students with a comprehensive and holistic approach, engaging students of all learning styles.

Chen has performed orchestral, chamber, and new music at festivals including Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Round Top Festival Institute, Meadowmount School of Music, Scotia Festival of Music, and Tuscia Operafestival. Chen has also served as assistant concertmaster of the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, Chen has served as a performer and teaching artist with the renowned Very Young Composers program, helping bring to life and premiering dozens of students’ compositions.

An experienced educator, Chen has worked with students of all ages in various settings, including the Brevard Music Center, Interlochen Arts Center, and public schools across New York and Colorado. She has also led sectional coaching as a mentor for Greater Boulder Youth Orchestra. From 2013-2015, she served as the director of First Notes, an El Sistema-inspired program in Vail, Colorado. Chen has completed Suzuki training through Violin Unit Two and participated in the 2013 Starling-DeLay Symposium for Violin Studies at the Juilliard School. Her work in arts outreach includes presentations at Ithaca College’s James J. Whalen Academic Symposium and the 2013 and 2015 National American String Teachers Association (ASTA) conferences.

Chen holds a bachelor of music from Ithaca College (Ithaca, New York) in violin performance and music education, where she studied with Nicholas DiEugenio. At Ithaca College, Chen performed with the Symphony Orchestra, which garnered multiple Adventurous Programming awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and played in venues such as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City. Currently, Jessica is pursuing her master’s degree in violin performance at the University of Colorado Boulder, studying with Harumi Rhodes. At CU Boulder, she also serves as the president of the CU ASTA student chapter. Jessica has performed in master classes for Giora Schmidt, Charles Castleman, Violaine Melancon, and The Ying Quartet. Jessica’s hobbies include hiking, traveling, and skiing.

Julia Beebe

RRMA Faculty

Julia Beebe graduated from Indiana University South Bend’s Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts in December 2015, earning a Bachelor of Music degree in viola performance. Over her 4 years there, she worked closely with the members of the Euclid Quartet, studying viola under Luis Vargas. In her junior year, Julia was given the wonderful opportunity to study abroad in Northern Ireland for a semester. While there, she toured the continent and performed a viola solo with the University of Ulster choir. Julia started studying violin through the Suzuki method at age 6, and at age 14 added the viola, since she loves the lower register. Through the Suzuki School of Granger, Julia was fortunate enough to join the Silver Strings Quartet at age 11, and stayed with the quartet for 7 years. The quartet won the Geoffrey Prize from the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2009. Julia began teaching privately during her freshman year of college. Her students find her approachable and outgoing. She fell in love with Colorado while at Rocky Ridge’s Young Artist Seminar over the summer of 2015, and is looking forward to doing more hiking and biking in beautiful Colorado.

Katarina Majcen

RRMA Faculty

Katarina Majcen is currently pursuing a doctorate in cello performance at the University of Northern Colorado, studying with Gal Faganel. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree with honours from Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge (UK) where her teacher was Caroline Bosanquet, and a Master of Music degree in cello performance from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (UK) where she studied with Rudi de Groote.

Katarina has participated in master classes with Peter Stumpf, Alexander Buzlov, Natalia Gutman, Karine Georgian, David Grigorian, Heidi Litchauer and members of the Brodsky Quartet. She has commissioned and premiered many new works for the cello, including Kevin Flanagan’s Cello Suite, Julio d’Escrivan’s La Prueba, Tim Miles’ Threnos and Crt Sojar Voglar’s Hard Rock Cello Party.

In 2015 she won the Rocky Mountain Concerto Competition and in 2014 the prestigious Southward Award. In 2012 she received a distinction for her final master’s recital and in 2010 a scholarship to study at the RCS. In 2011 she was the Jeunesses Musicales recipient and toured Slovenia with pianist Nafis Umerkulova. In 2006 and 2012 she received third prize at Competition for Young Slovenian Cellists and in 2010 a second prize at the BBC SSO Concerto Competition. In 2009 she received a scholarship for the Stamford International Chamber Music Festival (UK) and in 2011 for the Wagner Orchestra in Bayreuth (Germany). As a soloist she has performed with Anglia Ruskin University Orchestra, K239 Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Music School Žalec and Nottingham Youth Orchestra.

Since her studies at UNC, she has been the principal cellist in the symphony orchestra and opera. She is also a regular sub for Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra and Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra. In 2013 she performed for the members of the White House at the Kennedy Center in Washington and in 2012 performed at Cadogan Hall in London for the members of the British Royal Family. She was assistant principal cellist in the Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra in 2008 and a principal cellist in Orion and London Arte Chamber Orchestra in 2012 and 2013. Katarina has performed with Ilya Gringolts, Tom Poster, Guy Johnston, Julian Lloyd Weber, and more.

From August 2013 to April 2014 she toured the world as principal cellist in the Shen Yun Performing Arts, including performances at Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Renee and Henry Segerstrom Hall in Los Angeles, and Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.

Keith Barnhart

RRMA Faculty

“Keith is a perfect example of what we want in the field: brilliant, hard-working, patient, kind and charismatic.” ~Zachary Carretin, Artistic Director of the Boulder Bach Festival

Keith Barnhart is an energetic performer and teacher living in Boulder, Colorado. Adept on multiple instruments, he can be seen and heard performing regularly with the Boulder Bach Festival and the Ursa early music consort. He is also the founding member of the Fog City Guitar Duo with guitarist Patrick Smith, currently working on their first commercial recording including the music of Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Hans Werner Henze. Keith has performed in concerts coast to coast in the United States including Montana, South Dakota, Colorado, California, Ohio, Florida, and Oregon. March of 2009 marked Keith’s first international performance, dazzling a crowd in Kokonoe Japan.

Keith received a Bachelor of Music in 2006 from the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver with a double emphasis in classical guitar performance and commercial music technology. He studied under Ricardo Iznaola and Jonathan Leathwood for four years and received a senior classical guitar “Recital of Distinction” as well as the prestigious Ricardo Iznaola scholarship. He received his Masters of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2015 with an emphasis in Historical Performance. While there he studied with Marc Teicholz, David Tanenbaum and Richard Savino. Currently, Keith is pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder under the tutelage of Nicolò Spera. Keith has also studied with other notable guitarists including Christopher Parkening, The Bejing Guitar Duo, Lorenzo Micheli, Matteo Mela and Sergio Assad.

Keith has taught since 2006. He has experience teaching students from beginner to advanced both privately as well as in a group setting. He has taught on a variety of instruments in addition to classical guitar including steel string guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, ukulele, percussion, and piano. Additionally, Keith is working towards a certification as a Suzuki guitar instructor and as a Music Practitioner through the Music for Healing and Transition Program.

Max Wolpert

ARMP Faculty, RRMA Faculty, Executive Assistant

Fiddler, composer, and storyteller Max Wolpert conjures up monsters and myth where the traditional, classical, and theatrical meet. Drawing from tradition both musical and mythological, Max makes music inspired by stories from around the world.  Whether built upon the verve and bounce of an Irish jig, the endearing asymmetry of a Welsh pipe tune, or the drive of a Virginian breakdown, Max’s pieces are crafted with taut detail and a flair for the dramatic honed over years as a pit musician, conductor, and orchestrator for theatrical productions. Max’s first viola concerto, Giants, wields the unsung hero of the orchestra to call up singing harps, dancing stormclouds, and a fiendishly ticking clock inexorably counting down to the end of the world. His two string quartets, Myths and Song of Four, serve as pedagogical tools to introduce the classical musician to traditional forms and improvisation, and in performance bring forth an Irish war goddess, two enchanted ravens, a young girl with dreams of piracy, and a ferociously contrapuntal chase through a twisting labyrinth. Max is dedicated to music education and a passionate advocate for new music.  He teaches privately and at workshops throughout New England and the Midwest, and serves on the faculty for the Rocky Ridge Music Center.  Max encourages his students and collaborators to explore stories and traditions that spark the imagination, and to bring forth the outlandish, the macabre, and the magic inherent in music. For more information, please visit www.maxwolpertmusic.com.

Jenna Palensky

RRMA Faculty

Jenna Palensky is a doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Colorado in Boulder with an area emphasis in Eastern European music. Ms. Palensky is an active performer, researcher, conductor, and educator in the Boulder community. She is the conductor and artistic director of Boulder’s Romanian folk choir, Doina; performs with the Denver-based Balkan group, Planina; and frequently guest lectures on world music topics for a variety of music courses at the University of Colorado. Ms. Palensky is currently working on a collaborative album of Macedonian and Serbian folk songs with members of Planina. She performs frequently in the Boulder-Denver area and has performed and conducted research in Ireland and the Republic of Georgia. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Nebraska Wesleyan University and her Master’s degree in Music History from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In her spare time, Ms. Palensky enjoys cooking and baking, yoga, watching social documentaries and Chris Farley movies, research and writing, and drinking coffee.

Szilvia Schranz

RRMA Faculty

Szilvia Schranz is professional singer and educator with more than 13 years of experience teaching voice and piano to students of all ages. In 2003, Ms. Schranz was asked by The School at Columbia University, one of the top K-8 private schools in New York City, to create the after-school choir and singing program which she ran for more than 10 years. While in New York City, she also started her own private piano and voice studio where she taught students of all ages. Many went on to have further successes in music. Some of her students went on to study at the famed La Guardia School of Performing Arts and several were accepted to the prestigious Young People’s Chorus of New York City. All of her students learned an appreciation and love of music.

Now living in Colorado, Ms. Schranz continues to perform and pass along her passion and experience with music to the next generation.

Szilvia received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a post-graduate diploma from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and her Master of Music – Vocal Performance from Manhattan School of Music in New York City. More recently, Ms. Schranz completed Level 1 of Kodaly training.

Szilvia´s approach in private lessons is unique and individual to each student. The only way to ensure long-term success in musical endeavours is if the student is passionate about and finds joy in making music. To that end, Szilvia puts an emphasis on teaching the fundamentals while also cultivating each student’s passion and love of music.

Daniel Nester

RRMA Faculty

Daniel Nester begun studying the bassoon at the age of 12 in Israel, where he finished his Bachelor of Music degree in the Tel Aviv University, under the guidance of Richard Paley, Mordechai Rechtman, and Gadi Ledderman. Daniel then studied with Judith Farmer at the University of Southern California for his Masters, there winning the 1st place award in the solo competition, and the 2nd place award in the outreach chamber competition. Upon graduation, Daniel won the position of Principal Bassoon with the Israel Chamber Orchestra where he played, recorded CD’s, and toured Europe and South America. Daniel moved to Boulder in 2014 to study for a Doctorate degree in Performance & Pedagogy at CU Boulder with Yoshiyuki Ishikawa. For the last two summers Daniel has been the Bassoon teacher and chamber music coach at the CU High-school Summer Academy, as well as the principal bassoon player of the Arapahoe Philharmonic orchestra. Daniel has won many awards and competitions, performed recitals and recorded for the radio both in the US and in Israel, has participated in prestigious summer festivals like the Aspen festival, and is a much sought after orchestral player in Israel, performing often with all professional orchestras there.

Emma Shubin

RRMA Faculty

Flutist, Dalcroze Eurhythmics instructor, and Suzuki educator, Emma Shubin has been joyfully making music since the age of six. She is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy where she studied music, creative writing, and photography. A proponent of integrative education, Emma is the co-founder and director of the Colorado based non-profit Integral Steps, which strives to bring integrative education and balanced development to individuals, families, and communities through music, movement, psychotherapy, ecology and creative arts.

Emma received her MM in flute performance under the tutelage of Marco Granados (flute) and her Licensure and Certificate in Dalcroze with master Dalcroze pedagog Lisa Parker. Her teachers include legendary flutist Robert Willoughby, and she completed her BM in flute performance as a student of Christina Jennings at CU Boulder. Emma received her BA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2012, and continues to be active in research around mammals and the effects of climate change on the Rocky Mountain Region.

Emma is always looking for ways to share her love of great music, masterful composers, mixed media, and the performers who bring their mediums to life with diverse audiences throughout the Front Range. She is the founder and director of the concert series Meet the Composer, focused on an in-depth exploration of one composer per performance, and Among Friends, a mixed media concert series dedicated to combining visual and musical mediums in performance.

She travels nationally and internationally making music in both classical and improvised genres, and is currently touring as the flutist and serving as the co-director of the Musical Arts Program with the Sounds of Lyons in Lyons, CO (SOL MAP) and Arts Evolution and BenFeng Music Festival throughout Taiwan. She served as the Eurhythmics Chair and Co-chair of the Music Fundamentals Program at Dana V. Music in Louisville, taught flute at the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts and Colorado Music Festival, and was an instructor with the Dalcroze School of the Rockies. She has appeared as a Teaching Artist and Dalcroze clinician at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, the Desert Suzuki Institute (Las Vegas, NV), Cantabile Singers of Boulder, Boulder Valley School District, and Suzuki string institutes throughout the Denver-metro area, as well as the Lesley Ellis School (Arlington, MA).

Emma can be found enjoying the Rocky Mountain Region from her home in Louisville, CO where she works on various projects from composing and recording, performing and collaborating, to community engagement and integrative education and artistic events. She travels throughout the year performing all genres of music, giving workshops and masterclasses on audience engagement, Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Integrative education, and she teaches Skype/FaceTime and private lessons from Boston to Boulder and beyond. She is the co-executive director of Integral Steps and currently serves as the coordinator for new programming and an instructor with the Dalcroze School of the Rockies.

Kathryn Hendrickson

RRMA Faculty

Kathryn Hendrickson is a flutist and educator from Fairbanks, Alaska. She holds both a bachelor’s (BM) and master’s degree (MA) from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which she completed under the tutelage of Dorli McWayne. In addition to her studies at the university, she participated in masterclasses and lessons with Carol Wincenc, John Barcellona, Hilliary Abigana from The Forth Wall, Nicole Esposito, and Dr. Naomi Seidman.

Ms. Hendrickson was an adjunct instructor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, taught privately, and presented masterclasses throughout rural, interior Alaska. She has enjoyed many rich experiences as an orchestral, solo, and chamber musician. Ms. Hendrickson played with the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra for many years as principal flute, second flute, and principal piccolo. In addition to orchestral playing, she has a profound interest in both contemporary and classical repertoire for the flute. She has appeared in concerts in South Korea, Canada, and throughout the United States.

Ms. Hendrickson’s duo, The Midnight Sun Two, is currently working on a project consisting of commissioning and premiering chamber works for flute and percussion. The Midnight Sun Two has received works from composers Emerson Eads (Alaska), Lucus Oikle (Canada), and Derek Charke (Canada).

Ms. Hendrickson is a member of the National Flute Association and she is currently the treasurer of the Colorado Flute Association. She is a trained instructor with the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and is presently the flute instructor at the Rocky Ridge Music Academy. Ms. Hendrickson a Graduate Teaching Assistant at The University of Colorado Boulder where she is a candidate for a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, studying with the renowned Christina Jennings.

Kellan Toohey

RRMA Faculty

Clarinetist Kellan Toohey is an avid performer whose varied career includes recitals and solo appearances, chamber music, teaching, and orchestral playing. He recently completed a D.M.A. in Clarinet performance and pedagogy at the University of Colorado in Boulder, studying with Daniel Silver. His other teachers have included Jon Manasse, Burt Hara, Bil Jackson, Steve Cohen, Karen Dusek, Shannon Scott, and Bradford Behn.

An active orchestral player, Mr. Toohey currently holds the positions of Principal Clarinetist in the Boulder Chamber Orchestra and Assistant Principal Clarinetist in the Wyoming Symphony and Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra. His festival credits include the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Brevard Music Center summer festival, and the Eastern Music Festival. He has performed across the US, Europe, and in Asia, and recently recorded his first solo CD, entitled Scenes from Home, premiere recordings of new music by Colorado composers.

Kellan has received numerous awards, including winning 2nd Prize in the International Clarinet Association’s Young Artist Competition (2013, Assisi, Italy), 1st Prize and audience choice award in the University of Colorado Ekstrand Graduate Performance competition, 1st Prize in the University of Northern Colorado Concerto Competition and Angie Southard Performance Competition, and was also the winner of the Colorado College Summer Festival and Greeley Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competitions. In November 2016 he will be making his Carnegie Hall recital debut in New York City.

Kimberly Brody

RRMA Faculty, Interim Operations Manager

Kim has lived in Boulder since 2001. She moved here from Chicago, where she played in numerous orchestras throughout the whole metro area. She taught at North Park University and Valparaiso University, as well as private students in her home. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from St. Olaf College in Minnesota, and continued her studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and in Cleveland with John Mack, principal oboist of the Cleveland Orchestra. She currently serves as Principal Oboe of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra and 2nd Oboe of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra, as well as performing in a freelance capacity with various groups across the Front Range. In addition to her musical activities, Kim serves on the St. Olaf College Alumni Board, has a passion for health and nutrition on both the physical and spiritual level, and is an avid Colorado Rockies fan!

Teresita Lozano

RRMA Faculty & Programa Nuestra Música Director

Teresita Lozano is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Colorado Boulder. A native of the El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua borderland and daughter of Mexican immigrants, Teresita engages in music research that explores the relationship between music, Diaspora, and inherited memory in the construction of multicultural identities. Teresita has a strong interest in applied ethnomusicology, including civic engagement, public education and work in museums and archives. In 2013, Teresita was awarded a graduate fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where she worked in residence as a Latino Museums Studies fellow conducting field work and music research for the Latino D.C. History Project. Teresita has presented several papers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, including the Society for Ethnomusicology and forthcoming International Council for Traditional Music Applied Ethnomusicology Study Group in Nova Scotia. Teresita is an active flutist and vocalist at the University of Colorado and in the larger community. She has performed in a variety of ensembles, including world music (Mariachi, Japanese, African Highlife) and Early/Baroque music (flauto traverso). Teresita also participates in multicultural recording projects and has performed as a flute with local orchestras and community artists. She is currently a member of the Doina Romanian folk choir, as well a founding member of the Colorado-based traditional Mexican women’s ensemble, Las Dahlias. Teresita graduated summa cum laude from Baylor University where she studied flute with Helen Ann Shanley and was awarded the prestigious Presser Foundation Award in music performance and academia. She is an advocate for musical activism in the community, and utilizes her academic and performance background for diversity outreach, public education and human rights movements.