Adjunct Faculty
Jessica MacLean, Flute
Jessica MacLean is a young flutist from the Boston area. She earned a bachelor's of music in flute performance and musicology from Boston University in 2014, where she studied with John Heiss.
Jessica previously studied flute with Ethel Farny at the Rivers School Conservatory, where she performed frequently as a soloist and won various awards. She also studied with Christopher Krueger at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 2010 Jessica recorded with MSR Classic as a part of UMass's Wind Ensemble. The CD, Fantastique, was released in 2014.
Jessica actively performs in the Boston area and in a semi-professional wind ensemble in Belchertown, MA.
Jessica previously studied flute with Ethel Farny at the Rivers School Conservatory, where she performed frequently as a soloist and won various awards. She also studied with Christopher Krueger at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 2010 Jessica recorded with MSR Classic as a part of UMass's Wind Ensemble. The CD, Fantastique, was released in 2014.
Jessica actively performs in the Boston area and in a semi-professional wind ensemble in Belchertown, MA.
Jean Pace, Clarinet
Jean Pace has performed with many local orchestras and other musical groups in Massachusetts, Illinois, and Virginia, recently including the New England Philharmonic, Boston Civic Symphony, the New Philharmonia Orchestra, the Quincy Symphony, the Newton Symphony, the Metropolitan Wind Ensemble, and the Charles River Wind Ensemble. Her clarinet teachers have included Michael Norsworthy, Thomas Hill, J. Lawrie Bloom, Gene Collerd, and John Colbert. She has taught in the private lesson programs of the Scituate, Braintree, and Randolph school systems, as well as in her private studio. She studied English Literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and has an MFA from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
Andrea Bonsignore, Oboe
Andrea Bonsignore is a graduate of Oberlin College and New England Conservatory. She is the oboist for the five theaters in the Boston area that present Broadway touring musicals, and is a member of North Winds - the Young Audience Woodwind Quintet . In her capacity as a free-lancer, she has played and recorded with the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Emmanuel Music and appeared in YoYo Ma's video chronicling his music experiences at Tanglewood. Additionally, she performs with Boston Lyric Opera, National Lyric Opera, and many other groups throughout New England. She is the Coordinator (and performer) for Monadnock Music's “Lend an Ear” outreach program. In 2010 she toured nationally with the 75th Anniversary Production of "Porgy & Bess" and in 2011 she played Mary Zimmerman’s acclaimed production of “Candide” at the Huntington Theater.
Kaitie Noe, Bassoon
Kaitlin Elizabeth Noe is a Boston area freelance bassoonist. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Bassoon Performance and Music Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2009 where she studied with Stephen Walt, principal bassoonist of the Albany Symphony Orchestra. She then relocated to Boston where, in 2012, she earned her Master's degree in Bassoon Performance at Boston University under the instruction of Suzanne Nelsen, second bassoonist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Her other teachers have included Michael Breaux (NYU), Marc Goldberg (Mannes - The New School/Hartt), and Matthew Ruggiero (BSO/BU).
Mrs. Noe is active as a performer and teaching artist in the greater Boston area; she maintains an active studio as the Adjunct Professor of Applied Bassoon at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA and served as the bassoon studio assistant at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, MA from 2012-2014 where she worked with gifted high school students. Her recent performances include various recitals as well as performances with the Boston Chamber Symphony, the Quincy Bay Chamber Orchestra, and the Nickel City Opera Company in Buffalo, New York, along with numerous festivals and regional orchestras.
In addition to her work as a musician, Mrs. Noe is a passionate Higher Education Administrator. She currently works as a Staff Coordinator at Boston University where she also studies Educational Leadership and Policy, Arts Management, and Fundraising.
Mrs. Noe is active as a performer and teaching artist in the greater Boston area; she maintains an active studio as the Adjunct Professor of Applied Bassoon at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA and served as the bassoon studio assistant at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, MA from 2012-2014 where she worked with gifted high school students. Her recent performances include various recitals as well as performances with the Boston Chamber Symphony, the Quincy Bay Chamber Orchestra, and the Nickel City Opera Company in Buffalo, New York, along with numerous festivals and regional orchestras.
In addition to her work as a musician, Mrs. Noe is a passionate Higher Education Administrator. She currently works as a Staff Coordinator at Boston University where she also studies Educational Leadership and Policy, Arts Management, and Fundraising.
Ryan Noe, Trumpet
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Ryan Noe is an in demand trumpeter in Metropolitan Boston. Currently he holds the position of Principal Trumpet for the Glens Falls Symphony. In 2014, Maestro Lorin Maazel invited him to perform as a member of the Castleton Festival Orchestra in Castleton, Virginia. He has performed throughout New England with groups such as the Boston Chamber Orchestra, Boston Civic Symphony, Alea III: Contemporary Music Ensemble, New England Brass Band, Harvard Bach Society Orchestra, MetroWest Opera Company, Boston Opera Collaborative, Atlantic Symphony, Commonwealth Lyric Theater, Monadnock Wind Ensemble, and the New Bedford Symphony. In 2014 Mr. Noe was a Semi-Finalist for the National Trumpet Competition Graduate Solo Division and in 2012 he was apart of the Boston University Trumpet Octet who performed as SemiFinalists at the National Trumpet Competition in Fairfax, VA. In the summer of 2011 he played as a pit orchestra musician for the Ohio Light Opera in Wooster, OH.
Mr. Noe moved to Boston, MA in 2009 when he began his Master of Music degree from Boston University. He continued with his Doctor of Musical Arts at Boston University and is currently ABD for his degree. While at Boston University he has studied with Terry Everson, Thomas Siders, and Peter Chapman. Prior to moving to Boston, Mr. Noe lived in Kalamazoo, MI where he completed his Bachelor of Music degree from Western Michigan University. At WMU he studied with Professor Scott Thornburg and double majored in Trumpet Performance and Music Education. While living in Kalamazoo he was Principal Trumpet of the Kalamazoo Philharmonia. Also in the summers of 2007 and 2008 his Brass Quintet was selected to be the student artists in residence at the Bay View Music Festival in Bay View, MI. While at Bay View he also performed with the faculty brass quintet of the festival the Bay View Brass and the Bay View Symphony. Mr. Noe is originally from Plymouth, MI. For more information, please visit his website at: http://www.ryandnoe.com/ |