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Alumni Notes
-- From the Class of 2002
Vito Giacalone, a
saxophone performance major in his final year at the New England
Conservatory, announces his upcoming Master's Degree Recital
Friday, February 29,
2008 at 8:30 PM
Please join us for this
free event in support of one of the many fine young musicians at the
New England Conservatory.
Brown Hall
Jordan Hall
Building
The New England
Conservatory
Gainsborough St.
Boston MA 02215
Works will
include:
Accompanied by Eliko
Akahori
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From the
Winter 2007 Newsletter...By Mr. Tileston
The
holidays are always a time for retrospection and introspection.
And, this year I spent some time wondering about what musicians
King Philip has produced over the years.
How many or who among our many students have gone on to study music
and have pursued it as a profession? Who
have gone on to different things, but kept music performance as a part of
their lives? I went over the
alumni list for the 24 years since I began teaching here, to try and
produce an informal list of kids that initially went on to music.
I do not profess its complete accuracy, and would love to hear an
update from these people as well as to hear where I may have been in
error.
So,
starting with most recent graduates, here goes:
2006
Evan Butler and
Sarah Miller attend McGill University, majoring in
music performance.
Timothy Sepe
attends
UMASS Dartmouth majoring in percussion performance.
Mae Deevey attends school in New York pursuing musical theater.
2005
Erik Saras
is
at Northwestern University, majoring in music performance on bass
trombone.
Charles Sherwin
attends
UMASS Lowell, where he performs in the music program and may double major
in his junior year.
Jason Sundberg is pursuing Music composition after first attending UMASS
Amherst.
2004
AJ Simard attends UMASS Lowell, majoring in music recording.
Derek Koziol
attends
McGill University, majoring in music recording and engineering.
Mike Butler has performed with the Cadets, DCI world champions.
Shalyn Simmer teaches our color guard, as she has since her graduation.
2003
Lindsay King plays in a community band in Canada.
Jeff Jacobson
plays jazz piano in the area while attending Colorado
University.
Ryan Beans was drum major of his college band this fall.
Stephen Dacko
plays
drums in jazz combos in Maine and elsewhere.
2002
Morgan Bent is finishing up at BU in music performance.
Sarah
Cronin was a music
major at Syracuse, and now works for an orchestra in Boston.
Jim Foulis continues to attend Northeastern as an engineer, but also teaches our drum
line.
Vito Giacalone
graduated from BU with a performance major and is now
attending the New England Conservatory for a Masters in performance.
Mike (Stan) Moore attends UMASS Dartmouth as a percussion major, and teaches
the Dartmouth High School drum line. He
has aged out of the Cadets, but now
teaches the drum line at the cadets as well.
Matt Sieloff went to U Penn and now teaches history in Pennsylvania, where he is
Assistant Band Director of the school’s marching band.
Jessica Terrio
pursued
music at UMASS Dartmouth, in percussion.
2001
Janice Bishop went to Hartt School of Music and is now a music educator in Massachusetts.
Linda Boulden went to BU as a business major and is making millions, but she also plays
her piano as an accompanist for our chorus and chamber concerts.
Josh Clark studied music performance at UMASS Anherst for a time.
Jillian DiNunzio graduated from BU as a music education major and now
teaches in the Scituate Public Schools.
Magan Swanson
moved
to Texas before graduating but pursued music education for a while.
2000
Christopher Plummer went to BU to study music but transferred to film making.
1999
Kevin Zahner went to the University of North Texas to major in percussion performance,
continues to reside in Texas and is a professional musician.
George Bent graduated BU as a performance major, and now teaches trombone here at King
Philip, as well as being a policeman and an EMT.
1998
Sean Simmer graduated UMASS Dartmouth as a percussion major, having started at the
University of North Texas. For
awhile, Sean taught our program before going back to work in his
father’s business.
Tara Rukstalis, although not a musician, graduated UMASS Amherst and has returned to be a
color guard instructor here at KP.
1997
Jennifer Daigle went to Hartt Music School, and is pursuing her Doctorate
in Music Education.
1996
Jeremy Udden went to the New England Conservatory for both his bachelors and masters
degrees in jazz performance. He
performed with the Either Orchestra for years and also taught at King
Philip for many years in our jazz program and after school lesson program.
He is now pursing a music profession out of New York City.
Danielle Ouellette
went
to California, where I believe she pursued music education.
Ryan O’Connor
went
to the New England Conservatory for a time.
Marc Levetin
transferred
into music while at Syracuse University.
1995
Heather Wainwright studied music performance on piano at the Boston
Conservatory.
1994
Sean Greene majored in music at Berklee College of Music.
Jonathan Berman
went
to Westfield State and studied music performance.
1992
Michelle Lennihan, who is now a lawyer, went to George Washington
University where she was president of the wind ensemble in her senior
year.
Rick Copeland began in music at UMASS Amherst, but has ended up in acting and musical
theater.
1991
Cara (Mcgrath) Mulcahy went to Bridgewater State College and majored in music
education. She now owns a
web-design company, teaches flute here at King Philip, and also operates
the MICCA web-site.
Kurt Mattila
went
on to a career in film, and is currently directing a feature length movie.
He has worked with Steven Spielberg on special effects.
1990
Josh Wolloff, a UMASS grad in music education, is our current Band Director at the
middle school.
David Pope went to UMASS as a performance major, then went to Eastman School of Music
for jazz studies. He is now a
professor at James Madison University in Virginia, where he teaches
saxophone.
For now that is all I can think of, but when you add it up
it comes out to 46 former music students having gone on and continued a
musical experience. This
isn’t to mention the many, many students who are now lifelong advocates
of music education.
I
would love to hear from former students and receive updates on their
lives. Whether or not alumni
continue to play at music, it will always be in them.
One doesn’t have to make music one’s life to have music
in one’s life.