Mr. Stephen Belln 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.

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.

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.

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 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.