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Sandra Darling
Visiting Specialist
Voice
973-655-7212
wilsing@verizon.net

Soprano Sandra Darling has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and with the New York City Opera, and off-Broadway. She has performed more than eighty roles with the New York City Opera, the Metropolitan Opera Studio, the National American Opera, the Canadian Opera and with many regional opera companies. Her performances as orchestral soloist include the Pittsburg, Toledo and Detroit symphonies, the Brno (Czech Republic) Symphony, New York's Clarion Concerts, St. Andrew Society, Jens Nygaard's Mozart Chamber Orchestra, and with the orchestras of the St. Cecilia and Masterwork Choruses. Repertoire performed with these groups includes such diverse works as Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Mozart's Exsultate jubilate, Handel's Messiah, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Poulenc's Gloria, and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Ms. Darling is equally at home singing lieder ranging from Lully to Massenet, Bartok, Brahms, Wolf, Mozart and Bernstein.  In addition to studio voice she has taught English repertoire and diction, voice masterclass and vocal methods. Ms. Darling has been recognized by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and by the Cultural Heritage Competition for Superior Teaching.

Lisa DeLorenzo
Cali School Deputy Director
Professor of Music — Music Education (Graduate Coordinator)
Secondary Piano
973-655-7220
delorenzol@mail.montclair.edu

Prof. DeLorenzo holds an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, an MME from Indiana University, and a BS from West Chester State University -- all degrees in music education. At MSU she is the Coordinator of Music Education where she teaches music education courses and supervises student teachers. Her interests in creative and critical thinking and movement/dance as well as teacher education have provided material for numerous articles in practitioners and research journals. In addition, Prof. DeLorenzo continually seeks teaching opportunities with young children. Her work as a public school music teacher, with the MSU Preparatory Division, and on a Hopi Indiana Reservation attest to that interest.  In 1993-1994, Prof. DeLorenzo was awarded a John A. Goodlad Fellowship for study at the Institute for Educational Inquiry in Seattle. Her fellowship was one of eighteen selected throughout the country to examine teacher education and school renewal. She served on a writing panel for the New Jersey Department of Education to draft the core proficiencies for music instruction in the State of New Jersey and has been a clinician on music teaching throughout the Eastern region of the USA. Her affiliations with teaching organizations include the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), New Jersey Music Educators Association (NJMEA), and other nationally recognized education organizations.

Laura Dolp
Assistant Professor
Musicology (Program coordinator)
973-655-6883
DOLPL@mail.montclair.edu

Laura Dolp is a scholar of late nineteenth-century Austro-German music and visual arts who specializes in studies of the music of Mahler and the paintings of Klimt and Schiele. She is also studying the music of Arvo Pärt and its relationship to Eastern Orthodox iconography, the role of music in the novels of Willa Cather, and the relationship of music to modern dance in the choreography of Mark Morris. Her professional activities have included an event with the Spring Creek Project (Oregon) that is dedicated to dialogue between the environmental sciences and the humanities. She has led a workshop at Wellesley College that addressed the issue of listening, urban spaces and the natural world. She has served as editor of Current Musicology and on the Advisory Board of La Donne Musicale. She is a frequent speaker in the UK, Canada and the United States, most recently at the University of Montréal, University of Durham and University of Nottingham. Her awards have included a President's Fellowship at Columbia University and a DAAD scholarship at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. She completed her B.A. at Mills College, M.A. at Boston University and received her Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Columbia University.

Dean Drummond
Cali School Deputy Director
Associate Professor of Music— Theory-Composition
Partch Institute, Director; Partch Instrumentarium, Curator
973-655-6984
drummondd@mail.montclair.edu
deandrummond.com

Dean Drummond attended the University of Southern California and California Institute of the Arts. He studied trumpet with Don Ellis and John Clyman, composition with Leonard Stein, and worked as musician for and assistant to the composer Harry Partch. He performed in the premieres of Partch's Daphne of the Dunes, And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma, and Delusion of the Fury, and on both Partch Columbia Masterworks recordings made during the late 60's. He has performed and recorded extensively with Newband, which he co-founded with flutist Stefani Starin in 1977, and served as director of the Harry Partch Instrumentarium and taught theory and composition with an emphasis on microtonal music. His music has been recorded on Innova, Mode, and Music and Arts, and performed throughout the world including at Avery Fisher, Alice Tully and Carnegie Hall in New York. He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Library of Congress, and the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. Drummond has produced and music-directed Harry Partch's The Wayward, Daphne of the Dunes, Oedipus, Delusion of the Fury and his own The Last Laugh, a live film score for the silent film by F.W. Murnau. He has produced and performed on recordings of music by Harry Partch and John Cage and premiered new works by Cage, John Zorn, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lasse Thoresen, Mathew Rosenblum, Elizabeth Brown.  

Marjorie Ellias
Visiting Specialist
Music Therapy
973-655-7212

Marjorie Ellias is a Board Certified Music Therapist who has been practicing for over 21 years. She received her Bachelors Degree at Western Michigan University in 1987.  She has extensive experience implementing Music Therapy programs for Gero-Psych and Adult Psych patients in inpatient and partial care settings and has worked with geriatric residents in both skilled nursing facilities and dementia units. She is now providing contractual music therapy services to several facilities and training front line staff.  She has been an on-site facility supervisor for Montclair State University music therapy students for 10 years and joined the faculty in 2006 to evaluate students in the field at their practicum sites.

Lorraine Ernest
Visiting Specialist
Voice
973-655-7212

Soprano Lorraine Ernest has been acclaimed by critics for her portrayal as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte in opera houses throughout the United States and Europe, Peter G. Davis of New York Magazine writes," Lorraine Ernest brought down the house with her spectacular arias." She has performed this signature role with New York City Opera Metropolitan Opera Company, Pittsburgh Opera, Washington National Opera, Denver Symphony Orchestra, and the Volksoper of Vienna, as well as with many other opera companies. Other roles include performances with the Opera Company of Philadelphia as Elvira in L’italiana in Algeri, Washington National Opera as Cleopatra in Julius Caesar, alongside Placido Domingo and Mirelli Freni in Fedora, at Carnegie Hall as Mademoiselle Jouvenot in the Opera Orchestra of Orchestra of New York's concert-version of Adriana Lecouvreur, at the Los Angeles Opera as Princess Tatishchev alongside Placido Domingo in Nicholas and Alexandra. She performed first Violetta in La Traviata with Boheme Opera of New Jersey. She was the recipient and winner of awards from the Richard Tucker Foundation, the Mathias Sullivan Foundation, Metropolitan Opera Nation Council finalist, George London Scholarship Winner, Liederkranz first place winner and Birgit Nilsson Competition finalist.

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Diane Farrell
Adjunct Professor
Intro to Music
973-655-7212

Alan Ferber
Visiting Specialist
Jazz Trombone
973-655-7212

Alan Ferber is known internationally as a virtuoso jazz trombonist and bandleader.  His projects “Scenes From An Exit Row” and “The Compass” have shown his range as performer and leader. He has built a solid reputation both as an ensemble player and an improviser. He has toured with eight-string guitarist, Charlie Hunter, played lead trombone in a premiere of the “Sweet Ruby Suite” with Kenny Wheeler’s Large Ensemble, performed extended engagements with the Lee Konitz Nonet, Don Byron’s Music For Six Musicians, the Benny Wallace Nonet, and the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble in clubs ranging from The Village Vanguard, the Blue Note, Birdland, and Iridium. In addition to jazz, Alan has performed extensively in other genres with artists as diverse as Harry Connick Jr, Nancy Sinatra, Diana Krall, They Might Be Giants, Kelly Clarkson, Dr. Dre, Michael Buble, Paul Anka, and Broadway shows including The Producers, Fosse, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and A Chorus Line. He has appeared on TV shows including Late Night with David Letterman, the Tonight Show, The View, Beverly Hills 90210, and Good Morning America. As a teacher, Alan has been professor in residence at the Gremio das Musicas Jazz Workshop in Portugal, the Bar Harbor Brass Week, the Maine Jazz Camp, the Guimarais Jazz Festival, and the Lafayette Summer Music Workshop.      

Allison Franzetti
Accompanist
973-655-7212

Allison Brewster Franzetti received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School. An accomplished accompanist and chamber musician, she has collaborated with many artists, including Sir James Galway, John Corigliano, Stephen Paulus, Lowell Liebermann, Ransom Wilson, Eugenia Zukerman, Julius Baker, Robert White, and members of major US and international symphony orchestras. A multiple Grammy Nominee, Ms. Brewster Franzetti has performed solo recitals throughout the US, Mexico, Europe, Argentina and Japan, including concerts at Merkin Hall (New York), Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), and Wigmore Hall (London). Among her many recorded performances are the piano solo for the 2006 American/Argentine film, Tango Fatal, the 2005 Argentine/French film, Ronda Noctuma, and the 2003 French/Spanish film, Dans Ie rouge du couchant, as well as the works of Berg, Hindemith, Scriabin and Ravel. Orchestral performances include concerts with the Brooklyn Philharmonic (featured on NBC-TV News), Long Island Philharmonic, English Sinfonia, Denver Symphony, and the Colonial Symphony. She played the world premiere of Piano Concerto No. 2 by Carios Franzetti, commissioned for her as part of their 50th anniversary season, with the Teatro Colon with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires. She performed and recorded its European premiere with the Janacek Philharmonic.

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Jeffrey Gall
Professor of Music
Voice Program Coordinator
Music History
973-655-7213
gallj@mail.montclair.edu

Jeffrey Gall made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1988 - the first countertenor ever to sing at the Met. He sang Tolomeo in Handel's Giulio Cesare, and in 1994 returned to the Met for Britten's Death in Venice. He studied voice at the Yale School of Music with Blake Stern, and holds degrees in Slavic languages from Princeton and Yale Universities. He sang with such early music ensembles as the Waverly Consort and Pomerium Musices early in his career and then moved on to solo roles in Baroque and contemporary opera. He has sung principal roles at La Scala, Teatro San Carlo (Naples) and La Fenice in Italy; the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Salle Garnier in France; the Monnaie in Brussels; the Netherlands Opera; the Cologne and Frankfurt Operas in Germany; the Canadian Opera, as well as the Spoleto, Edinburgh, Innsbruck, Halle, Schwetzingen, and Bordeaux Festivals. In the United States he has sung at the San Francisco, Chicago Lyric, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Boston Operas, and has made many concert appearances at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington. He has recorded for CBS, Harmonia Mundi, Erato, Nonesuch, Titanic, and Smithsonian Records, and appears in the title role on the London video of Peter Sellars' production of Handel's Giulio Cesare. Prof. Gall has conducted clinics and master classes in both standard repertory and early-music techniques at music schools across the United States. In addition, he is a founding member of the Italian vocal ensemble Il Terzo Suono.

Peter Gillis
Visiting Specialist
Voice
973-655-7212
peterrgillis@yahoo.com
Peter Gillis - Website

His artistry hailed by The Chicago Tribune as "Wonderfully clear and precise," tenor Peter Gillis has performed extensively in the United States, Canada and abroad. Similar critical praise from The New York Times for his Ottavio at a Juilliard Opera Center Don Giovanni led to his European debut in Spoleto, Italy. Aseasoned recitalist, he has recorded several broadcasts for CBC Radio and Television in his native Canada. He made his debut performance with the Nova Scotia Symphony in 2005. Of his CD recording Peter Gillis: Cape Breton Tenor released in 2002 for distribution throughout Maritime Canada, the Halifax Herald has written, "...Superbly modulated tone... vastly superior vocal armament." In the United States Mr. Gillis has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Opera Company of Boston, Opera Orchestra of New York, Kennedy Center's Washington Opera, Pennsylvania Opera Theatre, Milwaukee's Skylight Opera Theater, Lenox Music Theater Group, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Alice Tully Hall and the Bruno Walter Auditorium. In addition to teaching at MSU, he has been on the voice faculties of Indiana University, Westminster Choir College, New Jersey City University, and Wagner College. His apprenticeship was with the Santa Fe Opera and he holds a Doctorate from the Juilliard School. He is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Sergio Gomes
Visiting Specialist
Brazilian Jazz - Percussion
973-655-7212

Karen Goodman
Professor of Music
Music Therapy - Graduate Coordinator
973-655-5268
goodmank@mail.montclair.edu
Karen Goodman - Website

Karen D. Goodman holds degrees from the City University of New York- Hunter College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as professional credentials in music therapy, creative arts therapy and special education.  Her research-based clinical work includes practice at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center (child psychiatry); Creative Arts Rehabilitation Center (child and adult psychiatry); Child Development Research Center (preventive mental health nursery); Communication Disorders Demonstration Program-MSU (child autism) and Regional Day School at Morris (multiply handicapped children). The results of Prof. Goodman’s qualitative research are reflected in publications and regional, national, and international presentations on musical process in music therapy with schizophrenic patients; development of the MTA-ED, Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Emotionally Disturbed Children (Goodman, 1989); use of Dr. Stanley Greenspan's clinical 'floor time' for autistic children; development of procedures for Individual Education Plan music therapy assessments: techniques in sensory integration for the multiply handicapped and autistic child and the link from theory to practice in the training and education  of music therapists. She has served as editor of Music Therapy: The Journal of the American Association for Music Therapy and was named to the Advisory Board of the Creativity Foundation, founded by the late Dr. Silvano Arieti as well as the Child Development Research Center Board, founded by the late Dr. Judith Kestenberg. Her book, Music Therapy Groupwork with Special Needs Children: The Evolving Process (pub. 2007; Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas ) was acclaimed In journals such as The British Journal of Music Therapy, The Nordic Journal of Music Therapy and The Arts in Psychotherapy and has sold throughout the world. Prof. Goodman sees clients in her private practice and serves as a clinical consultant to numerous school districts and as an editorial consultant to Prentice-Hall and Oxford University publishing companies.

Carolyn Guzski
Accompanist
973-655-7212

Pianist Carolyn Guzski performs frequently in New York and throughout the United States, and has been heard at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and the Juilliard Theater.  Past seasons have included concerts in Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean, as well as broadcasts over WNCN and Voice of America.  As an opera coach, Ms. Guzski has participated in seasons of the Florida Grand Opera, the Lake George Opera Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Orvieto Musica festival in the Umbria region of Italy.  In addition to performance degrees from Peabody Conservatory and the Juilliard School, she holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and has served on the musical staff of the Mannes College of Music and on the faculties of Hunter College, Queens College, and Brooklyn College in New York City.