PRIVATE TEACHERS


Elaine Baker D'Angelo
Flute
Ms. D'Angelo, Flutist, is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Hartt College of Music. Her flute teacher was John Wion, Principal, New York City Opera, as well as having studied with Albert Tipton, Aspen Music Festival, Paul Fried and Lois Schaefer, Boston Symphony. Elaine has been a featured soloist with the Quincy Symphony, Hingham Symphony and the Parkway Concert Orchestra. She has been a veteran principal and/or section player with many South Shore Orchestras and concert bands. She was a member of the flute faculty at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Michigan, for ten years and has performed over twenty Broadway Musical productions locally, as well as recitals, ensemble concerts and weddings. Elaine prepared and published a transcribed piano accompaniment from the score of the Bernard Romberg Flute Concerto. This effort resulted in personal award recognition by the National Flute Association in 1994. She is known locally as a clinician and is Orff Certified at Level III which she makes use of as a music educator with the Stoughton Public Schools.
 
Mark Leighton
Guitar
Mr. Leighton, is a classical and jazz guitarist,known for his wide-ranging repertoire. He has performed as a solo recitalist and ensemble player, across New England, appearing at venues including The Museum of Fine Arts,The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, Kings Chapel, The Post Office Square Concert Series in Boston, The Thomas Crane Library in Quincy, and many others. Mr. Leighton is also a member of the Copley Chamber Players. He is an Adjunct Music Professor at Eastern Nazarene College since 1989, and has served on the Applied Music Faculty at Colby College since 1981. Mr. Leighton has been Artistic Director of First Night Quincy for the past 15 years, and was Director of Beechwood Music School in Quincy for 10 years. A graduate of New England Conservatory, Mr. Leighton studied with David Leisner, Sharon Isben, and Robert Sullivan, among others.

Steve Bell
Clarinet, Saxophone, Oboe, and Bassoon
Mr. Stephen Bell has recently retired from the Rockland Public Schools where he taught for 33 years. As Director of Music and Band Director for both the middle and high school bands, he has consistently had his private lesson students involved in SEMSBA, Southeast District, All State and All Eastern Festival Bands. His various school ensembles have won numerous awards at competitions in jazz ensemble, concert band and chamber music. He has been teaching privately in several school systems over the years and also had Mr. Austin Glass as a private student "several" years ago.

Mr. Bell was Secretary for SEMSBA for seven years and Treasurer for SEMSBA for twenty years. He has conducted both the Junior and Senior festival Bands on numerous occasions. Mr. Bell has served as an adjudicator for both SEMSBA and Southeast District on many occasions. Mr. Bell received the Lowell Mason Award from the Massachusetts Music Educators Association in 1994 and was recognized as an outstanding teacher by the Plymouth County Teachers Association in 1998.

Currently, Mr. Bell is directing the Symphonic Winds and the 4 O'Clock Jazz Band at Eastern Nazarene College, a position he has held for seven years. He received the Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award in 2002 from Eastern nazarene College. He is also in his second season as the creative conductor and director of the Sharon Community band and the Roy Scott Big Band. Both of these ensembles have already benefitted from his knowledge of repertoire and skilled conducting.

Mr. Bell maintains a private lesson schedule which includes several students from the Pembroke Public Schools. He is also currently instructing elementary instrumental music students at the Federal Furnace School in Plymouth. When not involved with music, Mr. Bell and his wife enjoy traveling in their 1960 Austin Healey Sprite.

Dan Lasdow
Brass
Mr. Dan Lasdow recently retired as Director of Music in the East Bridgewater schools, a position he held since 1972.  He was instrumental music teacher and band director at Silver lake Jr. HS from 1968 to 1972.  Mr. Lasdow holds a bachelor of Music Education degree from Lowell State College and a Master of Music degree in trumpet performance from UMASS Lowell.  Additional studies have been at Boston University and New England Conservatory.

A recipient of the Plymouth County Excellence in Teaching Award, Mr. Lasdow has also received the Lowell Mason Award and Distinguished service Award from the Massachusetts Music Educators Association, the highest recognition by his colleagues in Music Education.

As a trumpeter, he is a member of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony and the Academy Brass Quintet.  Mr. Lasdow has performed with the Cape Cod, Plymouth, Brockton and New Bedford Symphony Orchestras, the Monomoy and Company theaters, the Chaminade Opera, the Fine Arts Chorale and numerous performances throughout New England.

Mr. Lasdow adjudicates the MICCA State Concert Band Festival each year and has judged SEMSBA and Southeast District auditions many times.  He has been invited to conduct the UMASS Lowell Summer Band, the SEMSBA Music Festival, the Central District Band, the MICCA Solo and Ensemble Festival and the Boston Public Schools Bands Festival.  The former conductor of the Tri-County Symphonic Band, Mr. Lasdow is frequently called to be a clinician in the school music programs of Massachusetts.

Private trumpet teaching includes students from Pembroke, Marshfield, Plymouth, King Philip Regional schools. Mr. Lasdow is the instrumental music teacher and band director at Manomet Elementary School.

Bob Ferrante
French Horn

A graduate of East Bridgewater High School, Mr. Robert Ferrante received his Bachelors of Music from Boston University and his Masters degree from Fitchburg State College. He has taken additional courses of study at the Berklee College of Music, Central Connecticut State University , Salem State College and Plymouth State (NH) College. Mr. Ferrante has been a music educator in the Holbrook, Plymouth and Brockton Public Schools , where he taught for twenty-two years. Now retired, he continues to instruct many private students at area schools and his home studio.         

Besides teaching, Mr. Ferrante enjoys an extensive performance schedule as he is an active member of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra, United Brass Quintet, South Shore Concert Band, Cosmo-Legion Band, Marion Town Band, Tri-County Symphonic Band and local popular classic rock group, “Dale and the Duds.” He has formerly performed with the Boston Symphony and Pops Orchestras, and the Cape Cod Symphony. While in Plymouth , he also served as vice president of the Board of Directors of the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Ferrante’s horn and percussion talents are frequently featured at area community events and schools, playing in the pit orchestras for their musical productions.

Paul Sullivan
Strings
With over 30 years experience teaching between cello, violin, bass, viola, and general music, Mr. Paul Sullivan is the lead music teacher for the Whitman-Hanson Regional School District. Over the years he has played in the Quincy Symphony Orchestra and Trafford String Trio, adjudicated for both SEMSBA and S.E. District string auditions, co-edited and produced Cello Enchanté, and contributed to Pure Technique for cello. A number of his students have been accepted into the SEMSBA, S.E. District, All-State, and GBYSO orchestras, and a few are now music teachers themselves. He was a student of Gloria Johns, Jennie Chan, and George Bornoff. For over 20 years he was on the faculty of the Bornoff String Workshop, and Assistant Director of the Bay State String Camp. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Eastern Nazarene College, and a Master of Education degree in Instructional Technology from Bridgewater State College.

Carol Cybulska
Voice
Ms. Carol Cybulska received her vocal training at the Music Conservatory in Cologne, Germany and the Schola Cantorum in Basle, Switzerland. She has performed throughout Europe, Australia and the U.S. as a concert and recording artist, both as a soloist and as a member of numerous early music ensembles, including Sequentia and the Huelgas Ensemble in Europe and more recently with the Cambridge Bach Ensemble and The Blue Heron Renaissance Choir in the U.S. Carol is co-director of the Orpheus Vocal Performance Laboratory summer workshops for young singers on the South Shore. She also teaches voice in her private voice studio in Kingston.


Jessica Vaitkus
Voice

Ms. Jessica A. Vaitkus, soprano, is the Director of Choral Music at Plymouth Community Intermediate School. She is an accomplished musician with extensive experience in both singing and teaching. Ms. Vaitkus attended Berklee College of Music and Bridgewater State College, where she holds a degree in Vocal Performance. Ms. Vaitkus has earned a reputation as a versatile young artist performing a variety of genres including classical, musical theatre, and contemporary music. Performing continues to be a prominent part of her career. In September 2005 she was chosen as an alternate for the annual “Charles A. Lynam National Vocal Competition” at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. In January 2005 she received first place in South Shore Conservatory’s Song and Aria Competition. In 2002, Ms. Vaitkus was a featured soloist in Berklee College of Music’s production of One Day in Your Life, a musical revue. Her recent operatic roles include “Barbarina” in The Marriage of Figaro and “Ida” in Die Fledermaus. Ms. Vaitkus is also an experience choral singer and has performed with the Boston POPS. She is currently the Director of Music at St. Thecla Church in Pembroke.

Peter Glass
Composition and Music Theory

Mr. Peter Glass was the Director of Music in Attleboro, later becoming a Guidance Counselor at Attleboro High School, and retiring in 2007.  Previously he taught music at Silver Lake RHS for 21 years.  Mr. Glass has a B.S. in Music Education and a Masters Degree in Music Theory from the University of Connecticut, as well as a M.Ed. in Counseling and a C.A.G.S. (Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study) degree in Educational Leadership from Bridgewater State University.  He is presently an Academic / Transfer Advisor at Bristol Community College.
 

Mr. Glass taught band at Bridgewater State University and also directed their Jazz Ensemble, as well as teaching classes in Public School Music. He has taught classes and been guest lecturer at UMass Dartmouth, Boston Conservatory and Berklee College of Music.  He has presented sessions on “Developing Marching Band” and “Working with Your Guidance Department” at the Massachusetts Music Educators State Conference in Boston.  

Mr. Glass conducted the S.E.M.S.B.A. band in 1980, 1983 and 1994, and the chorus in 1993.  He has been a member of the Executive Board for the Southeastern District – MMEA for over 25 years and serves as their treasurer. 

His recognitions include, Honor Award in Teaching - Plymouth County Education Association, Award for Public Service in Education, from the National Grange, Attleboro Teacher of the Year in 1996, recipient of the Lowell Mason Award from the Massachusetts Music Educators' Association and three nominations for the Massachusetts Teacher of the Year Award.  In 2008 he received a Citation for Outstanding Performance from Bristol Community College and a Silver Shield Award in 2010.

Mr. Glass arranges the music for a number of marching bands in Massachusetts, including Pembroke High School.  He has also had a number of his original choral works performed by local groups.