-
Sumner Truax
Sumner Truax is an associate in Covington & Burling’s Washington, D.C. office. He focuses his practice on complex litigation and has experience representing clients in all stages of litigation from the initial stages of an investigation, discovery, trial, and appeal. Sumner maintains a varied pro bono practice. He is currently representing six fathers and their…
-
Mike Forfia
Mike Forfia is a musician, teacher, and organizational leader who currently serves as the Music Director at City Light church in Astoria, NY, Bassist with the Urbana Worship team, and Director of Staff & Programs at Redeemer West Side’s W83 Ministry Center, a worship center and events space on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.…
-
Sarah Forestieri
Sarah Forestieri is an arts administrator, soprano, and educator. She is the City of Brampton Performing Arts Associate, where she is responsible for liaising with internal and external stakeholders to execute performing arts events, services and programs for the community. Sarah was the Manager of Community Partnerships & Programs at the Canadian Opera Company. Sarah…
-
Sungmin Shin
Korean-born American musician Sungmin Shin maintains a vigorous schedule seamlessly navigating the unpredictable musical landscape of the 21st century. Dr. Shin is an artist-teacher, arts leadership advocate, composer, consultant, engineer-producer, ensemble director, entrepreneur, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, music theorist, and scholar. Sungmin balances his classical training with his deep roots in diverse musical cultures to seek new…
-
Stephania Romaniuk
Ukrainian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Stephania Romaniuk is the Grand Prix Winner of the First International Competition of Ukrainian Retro Music and has toured Ukraine twice, singing in the Odesa, L’viv, and Kyiv Opera Houses and in concert with the Kyiv National Operetta Company. As a teaching artist for Calgary Opera, she has created and led cross-cultural song-sharing…
-
Alexa Tarantino
Alexa has appeared with a wide variety of ensembles including the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Cecile McLorin Salvant Quintet and OGRESSE ensembles, Ulysses Owens Jr.’s Generation Y and Big Band, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, and leads the Alexa Tarantino Quartet.…
-
Rachel Barnett
Rachel is an experienced, people-oriented problem solver with a passion for cultivating healthy organizational cultures and robust employee training programs. After over five years working in nonprofit space, she is currently working at KPMG in Learning and Development while pursuing an M.A. in Social-Organizational Psychology at Columbia University.
-
Philip Pierick
Classically trained and experimentally minded, Chicago-based saxophonist, improviser, singer, and educator Phil Pierick has been called “the Swiss Army knife of saxophonists.” Though equally at home performing music spanning the past five centuries, he is an emphatic advocate for new music and has commissioned more than 25 new works and presented over 50 premieres. I…
-
Malinda Wagstaff Metro
Malinda Wagstaff is a warmhearted first year graduate student at Indiana University where she studies with Carol Vaness. She achieved her bachelor’s degree at the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Ruth Hennessy. In the spring of 2020, Malinda performed the role of Angel More in The Mother of Us All with the…
-
Kevin Holzman
Kevin Michael Holzman serves as the Director of Wind Studies and Head of the Division of Ensembles and Conducting and the University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music. His academic responsibilities include teaching graduate conducting and related courses, and advising and mentoring of wind conducting students in CCM’s Masters and Doctoral programs. Holzman also…
