Musical Specialty: Military

  • Adam Green

    Adam Green

    Adam Green is an arts administrator and percussionist. His passion is finding meaningful ways to connect people to the arts. As a former member of the Air Force Band in Washington, D.C., Adam managed the Concert Band’s national tours and marketing teams developing outreach products as they traveled across the country. In 2015 and 2023,…

  • Darren Lin

    Darren Lin

    1st Lieutenant Darren Y. Lin joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in July 2019 as a percussionist. He was appointed Assistant Director in July 2021 and commissioned to his current rank in January 2022. 1st Lt. Lin is a 2009 graduate of Hershey High School in Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor’s degree in…

  • Carrie Bean Stute

    Carrie Bean Stute

    Cellist Carrie Bean Stute is co-founder and co-artistic director of the Washington, DC-based Chiarina Chamber Players, a chamber music series and flexible ensemble that has won critical acclaim for its artistry and innovative programming and was awarded a 2020 Classical Commissioning Grant from Chamber Music America. Carrie’s chamber music performances have been broadcast on Classical…

  • Arianna Hammond

    Arianna Hammond

    Arianna Hammond is the Principal Clarinetist of the United States Navy Band. She joined the band in 2017, after completing her BM in Clarinet Performance from the Eastman School of Music earlier that year. She was named Assistant Principal of the Navy Band in 2019 and was later appointed Principal Clarinet in 2021. While at…

  • Courtney Hershey Bress

    Courtney Hershey Bress

    Courtney Hershey Bress joined the Colorado Symphony as Principal Harp in 2001. Ms. Bress has had engagements with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has served as Acting Principal Harp of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and was Principal Harp with the United States Army Field Band in Washington, D.C. She is…

  • Stephen Lamb

    Stephen Lamb

    Stephen Lamb, tuba, currently serves as a tuba player in the United States Coast Guard Band, a position he has held since 2003. Additionally, he is Principal Tuba of the Rhode Island Philharmonic and currently serves at the orchestra’s Personnel Manager. He received a bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and a master’s…