Teaching K-12

Dan Fogarty (BME ’90) teaches at Englewood Elementary in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. For more than twenty years, he has taught pre-school through 12th grade in areas such as general music, chorus, and show choir. He co-chaired the Nash All-County Chorus and served as Board President for the Nash Arts Council. In addition to music, Dan has a masters degree in School Administration from East Carolina University (Greenville, North Carolina), where he was a Principal Fellow. email

Performance

Marcy Baruch (BM ’91), a singer-songwriter in Denver, Colorado, has received rave reviews for her CDs and live performances: “A crystalline voice, gifted with passionate phraseology, and an adaptability to play venues both grand and intimate, Marcy Baruch is a must see (or rather hear) musician in the pop folk category” (Riff Music Magazine). “This Denver area performer’s second full-length CD has a buoyancy upon which her strong, melodious voice floats, reminding some of us of Dar Williams and Shawn Colvin” (Music Connection Magazine). Album of the Month: “Marcy Baruch strides confidently through her kick-up-the-dirt songs with steel-toed vocals and a carefree, reckless zest for life” (Allen Foster, Songwriter’s Monthly). “Baruch takes her music-making seriously, and has carefully crafted an inviting record and a tight band that reflect her talent for songwriting, lyrical phrasing, and melody” (Judy B., GoGo Magazine). email

Arts Administration

Luke Dennis (BA in Music and Theatre ’00) was Executive Director of The Muse Machine in Dayton, Ohio for three years and is now Development Director at radio station WYSO in Yellow Springs. In recent years Luke has taught music and theatre at the middle school and undergraduate levels, served as vocal coach to a troupe of improvisational actors, and worked as Reference Specialist for the Harvard University Theatre Collection and Education Manager for Boston Lyric Opera. He completed the coursework for a Ph.D. in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory at Tufts University, where he focused on nineteenth-century opera and musical theatre performance traditions. email

Music Therapy

Susan Potter Phillips (BME ’77) began her preparation for working in the field of music therapy began when she was still in college: She worked at Lutheran Memorial Camp (Fulton, Ohio), which included special-needs children in a regular camping program and later she encountered students in special education while doing student teaching. After two years of teaching elementary music in Millersburg, Ohio, Sue went to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Sue completed a Master of Music Therapy degree at SMU in 1985. (She took off a few years to get married and begin a family before writing her thesis.) Sue has worked as a music therapist in public schools, private practice, and private and public hospitals in the mental health field. She is currently working full time at San Antonio State Hospital, providing music therapy in group and individual sessions to adolescents and adults in both short-term and long-term care. email

Church Music

Brad Hall (BM ’05) is organist at Calvary Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) in Portland, Oregon, having previously served as director of music at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Columbus, Ohio. In addition, he has been working with Bond Organ Builders in Portland. Brad is an accompanist at the Portland Lutheran School (an independent K-12 school) and sings with the Cascade Lutheran Chorale. He performed with the Wittenberg Choir, under the direction of Donald Busarow, and presented an organ recital as part of the 50th anniversary of Weaver Chapel. Following a national competition, Brad won the 2004 Ruth and Paul Manz Organ Scholarship while a student at Wittenberg. email

Performance, Teaching, and Composition

Justin Peters (BM in Composition ’02) is conductor of the upper and middle school choruses and faculty chorus at Lincoln School, a Quaker school for girls in Providence, Rhode Island, where he also teaches music theory, digital-video editing, and general music. An active arranger, songwriter, and composer, Justin’s musical Shower premiered at Lincoln in 2005. Justin is a member of the Providence Singers, one of New England’s premier symphony choruses. With the Providence Singers, he performed Dave Brubeck’s Gates of Justice (with the composer and his quartet) at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2004. The Singers’ second appearance with Brubeck, at Lincoln Center in New York City, included the world premiere of Brubeck’s The Commandments. Other world premieres by the Singers include Trevor Weston’s Ma’at Musings and O Daedelus, Fly Away Home, Julian Wachner’s Jubilate Deo, and Chistopher Trapani’s O now the drenched land wakes. Justin appears in the chorus on the Providence Singers’ and Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s recently released recording of Lukas Foss’s The Prairie. email

Music Librarian

Daniel Boomhower (BA in Music ’98) is Head of the Reader Services Section in the Music Division at the Library of Congress. Previously he held positions in the music libraries at Kent State University and Princeton University. Daniel studied library science and musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Case Western Reserve University. email

Teaching at the University Level

Georgia Petroudi (BM ’01) earned a masters degree in piano performance and a Ph.D. in historical musicology at the University of Sheffield, in the United Kingdom. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Revised Works of the 20th Century. In 2007, Dr. Petroudi was appointed lecturer at the Department of Arts, European University Cyprus. She served as the co-coordinator of the music program and now is an assistant professor of musicology and is chairperson of the Department of Arts. Her research interests include Western composers of the first half of the twentieth century and Greek and Greek-Cypriot composers. In her free time, Georgia plays piano and the oboe in several choral and symphonic ensembles. email

Peter Kvetko (BA ’95) teaches courses in ethnomusicology and music theory at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts. He earned a masters and PhD in music at the University of Texas in Austin. At Salem State, Peter directs the World Music Ensemble and teaches private lessons on sitar and tabla. He joined the Salem music department in 2007 after teaching at Tufts, Brandeis, Northeastern, and the University of Texas in Austin. email

Graduate Studies in Music

Instead of pursuing a music career immediately, you might wish to begin work on a graduate degree in performance, music theory or history, arts administration, ethnomusicology, or some other discipline.

Jennifer Gordon (BM ’07) earned a masters degree in vocal performance at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. While at Wittenberg, Jennifer performed in My Fair Lady and Mozart’s Magic Flute. She studied opera in Milan, Italy, for a semester, and opera and art song for a summer in Quebec. She is now working on a D.M.A. at the University of Minnesota.

Careers Outside of Music

Many disciplines that require postgraduate training or education do not require a student to have a particular undergraduate degree. Medicine and law are examples of such disciplines.

Mary Miller Johnston (BM ’79) was appointed to the Superior Court of Delaware in 2003. She received a masters degree in music at Northwestern University and J.D. (cum laude) at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Judge Johnston is past chair of the Delaware State Bar Association’s Women and the Law Section, a recipient of the Bar Association’s Women’s Leadership Award, and was a member of the Pro Se Litigation Assistance Committee. She is a member of the Delaware Supreme Court’s Permanent Advisory Committee on the Delaware Lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct and the Court’s Professionalism Committee. Judge Johnston serves as a member of the Washington and Lee School of Law Council.