musiConnects Guild of Musicians & Educators
Anna DeLoi
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Anna was first introduced to musiConnects through From the Top’s Center for the Development of Arts Leaders – a program that pairs high school musicians with community partner-sites for intensive year-long outreach projects. In this program, Anna and her site partner, Nash, worked with musiConnects, assisting in chamber groups, planning curriculums, and fundraising. In June, they organized a field-trip for the musiConnects students to see a From the Top taping in Jordan Hall. After the FTT program ended, Anna continued to work at Chittick with two classrooms of kindergarten students, teaching music-appreciation and basic music-making skills. It is her hope to continue to pursue music in unique and transformative settings.
click here to read a blog posting by Anna about her experiences at Chittick.
click here to read a blog posting by Anna about her experiences at Chittick.
Nina Vansuch
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She is the recipient of 15 grant awards, including one from the American Business Collaboration for excellence in children’s arts programming.
Nina is currently resurrecting a program she developed in the 1990s, the Neighborhood Arts Exchange, which places college student interns in after school programs and community centers and also serves as a consulting resource for these organizations. www.ninavansuch.com
Nina is currently resurrecting a program she developed in the 1990s, the Neighborhood Arts Exchange, which places college student interns in after school programs and community centers and also serves as a consulting resource for these organizations. www.ninavansuch.com
Daniel Sedgwick
Composer/pianist

Dan Sedgwick is a composer, pianist, and teacher living in Somerville, MA. His current composition projects include a work for two bassoons and string orchestra (inspired by late chamber music of Gabriel Fauré, and commissioned by the Keene Chamber Orchestra of Keene, NH,) and a series of canons for mixed voices and instruments (flexible instrumentation), composed in collaboration with Marjorie Gere for the Sagittal Songbook, a collection of microtonal music soon to be published by Oddmusic of Urbana, IL. Dan’s other recent and ongoing musical activities include singing and puppeteering with music/puppetry collective An Exciting Event in Charlestown, MA; touring internationally as keyboardist/vocoderist with disco-pop artist Kelley Polar; and performing piano chamber music at the Apple Hill Summer Workshop in Nelson, NH.
Dan graduated with doctoral and master’s degrees in composition from Rice University, and A.B. degree with concentration in music from Harvard. He has studied composition with Bernard Rands, Mario Davidovsky, Elliot Gyger, Shih-hui Chen, Kurt Stallmann, Anthony Brandt, and Karim Al-Zand, and piano chamber music performance with Eric Stumacher, Robert Levin, Jeanne Kierman-Fischer, and Brian Connelly, among others.
He currently works as a teaching assistant in music theory at the Harvard Music Department.
Dan graduated with doctoral and master’s degrees in composition from Rice University, and A.B. degree with concentration in music from Harvard. He has studied composition with Bernard Rands, Mario Davidovsky, Elliot Gyger, Shih-hui Chen, Kurt Stallmann, Anthony Brandt, and Karim Al-Zand, and piano chamber music performance with Eric Stumacher, Robert Levin, Jeanne Kierman-Fischer, and Brian Connelly, among others.
He currently works as a teaching assistant in music theory at the Harvard Music Department.
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Zoe Kemmerling
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Michael Dahlberg
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Michael Dahlberg, cellist, is emerging as an engaging performer and educator in Boston and New York. After graduating from the New England Conservatory in May 2011, where he studied with Yeesun Kim of the Borromeo Quartet, he has explored music as a community-building tool, maintained a regular performance schedule and private studio. From 2011-2013, Michael served as the cellist of the Boston Public Quartet and served as the managing director of musiConnects for the 2012-2013 school year. An active freelance cellist in Boston, Michael plays regularly with the Juventas New Music Ensemble and Discovery Ensemble. This summer was his fifth at the Tanglewood Music Center where he was awarded the Karl Zeise Memorial Cello Award (2009) and featured in contemporary chamber works as a New Fromm Player (2011-13). Recent projects emphasize the layered nature of Dahlberg’s early career. These range from collaborations with composers such as Oliver Knussen, Charles Wuorinen and John Zorn to shows with the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Laura Grill Band. He has held leading positions as Mentor in the inaugural class of Arts Leaders at From the Top’s “Center for the Development of Arts Leaders,” faculty at the Community Music Center of Boston and guest teaching artist for the 7th annual Panama Jazz Festival. Michael now works as manager of the national tour for the Boston arts organization, From the Top.
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