Music Lessons/Instructors

Trish Giangiulio has a multifaceted career in the arts, as a performer, educator, and administrator. A Philadelphia area native, she had some of her early musical education with Randy Gardner, former 2^nd horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She continued her education in New York, where she studied with Ranier DeIntinis, retired 3^rd horn of the New York Philharmonic, and received her Bachelor of Music.

A member of Academy Brass Quintet (for which she also serves as Managing Director), the Bay Atlantic Symphony, former member of Opera New Jersey Orchestra, with other credits ranging from the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia to the Strauss Orchestra of America, one would already imagine a busy and fulfilling musical life. But Trish’s performance schedule is not so one-dimensional.

Much more than a classical musician, her other credits include numerous engagements backing Frank Sinatra Jr., two tours with Josh Groban, tours with Sarah McLachlan, Il Volo, and Warren Haynes’(of Allman Brothers, Gov’t Mule, and Grateful Dead fame) “Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration.” Trish has found herself on the short list for East Coast musical contractors when the likes of rock legend Peter Cetera, latin jazz phenom Poncho Sanchez (leading the late Tito Puente’s band), and indie-rock star Lisa Loeb come calling.

Not to be pigeon holed as a orchestral musician or a backing “side(wo)man”, Trish’s solo work has taken her to collaborations with Hugworks for the Memorial Service for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In 2008, she played the Philadelphia and Connecticut premiers of “The Aim was Song”--a cantata commissioned by LyricFest and written for 7 Soloists, girl choir, horn and piano by Grammy nominated composer Nicholas White. In 2011, Trish premiered “Convergence: A Charm of Moonlight” for choir and quartet for the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts by renowned composer Thomas Pasatieri.

In addition to her live performances, she has extensive experience in the recording studio, having recorded for NASCAR, film soundtracks including a “modern day silent film”, CD projects for New World Records, Albany Records, Angel/EMI, Inc, as well as sessions for various artists/composers/publishers.

As an educator, Trish has had the privilege of teaching students at Waldron Mercy Academy and Merion Mercy Academy over the past 20 years. Educated by the Sisters of Mercy, Trish is deeply rooted in the Mercy philosophy and is grateful that she has the opportunity to teach in the Mercy schools.

pgiangiulio@gmahs.org

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Mrs. Elizabeth Stubbs was trained in vocal performance in London at the Guildhall School of Music, and graduated from the London College of Music in 1973 with an Associate, Licentiate teaching diploma, and Fellowship of the College. She performed in and around the London area in operas, concerts and recitals, and toured with D'Oyley Carte and Operabout; many of these concerts were broadcast on British television and radio. Mrs. Stubbs worked and performed with Sir Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten at the Aldeburgh Festival in England and later at Glyndebourne under the direction of Jonathan Hinden .

Mrs. Stubbs and her husband moved to the US in 1981 where she continued her career teaching and performing, including a performance as soprano soloist in the Pergolesi Stabat Mater at Carnegie Hall. In 1994, Mrs. Stubbs was hired as vocal instructor and later assumed the position of assistant director of the GMAHS Glee Club and Chorale. Her students have attended prestigious vocal institutes and conservatories such as Peabody, Westminster, Oberlin, and the Metropolitan Opera Young Artists Program. She continues to impart her love of classical music and opera to our students at GMA.

 lstubbs@gmahs.org

Lyric Soprano Dr. Elizabeth Ann Murphy is an active performer and voice instructor. She is a native of York County, Pennsylvania and studied voice with Margaret Moul Carli. She later studied voice with Klara Meyers while earning both undergraduate and master’s degrees in classical voice performance at Temple University in Philadelphia. She has studied with international soprano Tamara Matthews and Baroque expert Dr. Frederick Urrey. Elizabeth is the winner of numerous awards and competitions, including scholarships from the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra and the Kennett Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth has sung in master classes with artists such as Michele Crider, Joan Dornemann, Richard Miller, Thomas Grubb, and Marietta Simpson. She was employed for nine years as the soprano soloist and section leader at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. Some career highlights include concert engagements as soprano soloist for Mozart’s Missa Brevis in Graz, Austria, Handel’s Messiah at Bethany Lutheran Church in Cherry Hills Village, CO, Handel’s Foundling Anthem with the Rutgers University Choir and the Chilcott Requiem in Jarrettown, PA. Her stage roles have included Serafina in Il campanello, Antonia in Les Contes D’Hoffmann, the title role in Norma, the Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel, Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Ann Putnam in The Crucible, Nerina, in Haydn’s Le Pescatrici, (a U.S. Premiere), the role of Mrs. McLean in Susannah, Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte and Maddalena in Andrea Chenier. January 20, 2015, Elizabeth performed the National Anthem at the inauguration for Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf. Elizabeth has been Professor of Voice at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA since 2002 and in August 2011 was appointed Assistant Professor and Program Director. She received her DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) degree from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, NJ in May 2012. In addition to her Classical expertise, she is certified in CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music) with certificates from CCM programs: Shenandoah University, the LoVetri Institute, Bel Canto Can Belto, and BOCO Boston. She is at home teaching Classical, Musical Theater, Jazz, and Pop styles. Elizabeth resides in North Wales, PA and maintains a private voice studio.

emurphy@gmahs.org

Dan Hanrahan has a degree in Jazz Performance from Temple University. Since graduating in 2009, he has been performing regularly as a leader and a sideman at venues such as Chris' Jazz Cafe, Time, The Deer Head Inn, and many others. Dan has worked extensively with many musicians from Philadelphia's jazz scene, and has performed with Larry McKenna, Terell Stafford and Tim Warfield. Additionally, Dan maintains a busy schedule as an educator. He has taught lessons and ensembles at Father Judge High School and DeLuca Music, and is currently a guitar instructor at Settlement Music School and Friends Select School in Philadelphia.

dhanrahan@gmahs.org

Violinist Karen Banos is and active performer and teacher. She attended Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the New School of Music, where she studied with Jascha Brodsky. She also studied with Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School for Strings, and had additional chamber music studies with Charles Castleman at the Quartet Program.

Ms. Banos is currently a member of the orchestras of the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the Opera Company of Philadelphia. She toured with the NYC Opera, National Company, and is also currently a regular substitute for Broadway musicals. She is a founding member and first violinist of the Rittenhouse String Quartet, and spends her summers playing with the Lake George Opera Company in Saratoga Springs, NY and the Endless Mountain Music Festival in Wellsboro, PA.

Committed to the education of the underprivileged, Ms. Banos has worked for the Institute for Arts in Education (trained by the Lincoln Center Teaching Artists) as well as the PA Arts in Education Partnership. These residencies in the city schools of Philadelphia provide music education to students who attend schools that no longer offer general music.  Ms. Banos is also the violin and viola teacher at Drexel University.

In addition to classical performing, she has enjoyed performing with headlining stars like Bob Hope, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach and Bernadette Peters, to name a few. She has performed with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and on Broadway has played in the pits for Secret Garden, Tommy, Ragtime, Boy from Oz, and West Side Story.

Anne Levinson is a graduate of The University of the Arts with a Bachelor in Music and also Music Education. She recently moved back to Philadelphia after having spent the past twenty years in beautiful Arizona and California. While in California, she taught privately and coached flute ensembles for adults and was a member of the professional flute quartet “Flutés dé Salon”, performing on Piccolo, C flute, Alto flute, and Bass flute.

She is currently a member of the Philadelphia Flute Quartet and the Germantown Flute Trio.

Anne is on the teaching staff at Settlement Music School, Chestnut Hill Music Academy and Waldron Mercy Academy.

alevinson@gmahs.org

DOROTHY ANNE STONE, L.R.A.M.

After her initial oboe studies with Louis Rosenblatt, solo English Horn player of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Ms. Stone continued her education at The Royal Academy of Music in London. There she was awarded the Licenciate of The Royal Academy of Music degree in Oboe Performance specializing in music of the Baroque era. As soloist, she performed the “L'Horloge de Flore” for oboe and orchestra by Jean Francaix under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner and at the invitation of conductor Christopher Seaman, she was guest oboist with the Dunfermline Festival Orchestra in Scotland. Ms. Stone founded The Festival Chamber Players of London, a Baroque ensemble consisting of flute, oboe, violin, cello & harpsichord performing in London and at country estates. She spent a year as professor of oboe studies at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama before returning to the United States.

As founding director of The Festival Chamber Players of Philadelphia she programmed concerts for five seasons in galleries and museums such as the Gardner Museum in Boston, the Phillips Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the Frick Museum. This led to the creation of D.A.S. Artists' Management and D.A.S. Productions which continued for twenty-five years to provide production and entertainment services for corporate and private events in the greater Philadelphia area. Perhaps you attended the “Great American Picnic” at Penn's Landing where D.A.S. Productions provided forty acts on four stages over a period of four days!

Ms. Stone played oboe and solo English Horn for several seasons in the orchestra of The Boston Opera Company under the renowned director and conductor, Sarah Caldwell. This included performances of the American premiere of Prokofiev's “War and Peace”, “Don Carlos”, “Madame Butterfly”, Kurt Weill's “Mahagony”, “The Barber of Seville” and “Don Quichotte” with such vocal opera greats as Beverly Sills, Donald Gramm, Enrico di Giuseppe and Spiro Malas.

Ms. Stone currently instructs oboe students privately and specializes in chamber music coaching.

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Principal Harpist for the Pennsylvania Ballet, Mindy Cutcher is an in-demand professional soloist, teacher and recording artist in Philadelphia. Her most recent collaboration, Principally Harps! is a duo-harp ensemble formed with fellow harpist, Janet Witman. Symphonic engagements include the Baltimore and Delaware Symphonies, the St. Louis Symphony, and Philadelphia's Chamber Orchestra.

Taught by world renowned Alice Chalifoux at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Mindy Cutcher received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Harp Performance. While still a student, Ms. Cutcher had already gained national exposure when she made her network television debut on NBC's The Tonight Show.

Ms. Cutcher has earned a truly international reputation, performing and traveling outside the U.S. She has traveled regularly to Japan, where she fulfilled several three month engagements in Tokyo and Okinawa. In addition to time spent in the Orient, Ms. Cutcher has entertained world travelers onboard Cunard and Holland America cruise lines.

Ms. Cutcher resides near Philadelphia with her husband Steve, also an accomplished musician and her two children, Jeff and Jane.

mcutcher@gmahs.org

Ross Beauchamp, cello, holds a bachelor and masters degree in cello performance from Boston University. He has been teaching cello for over 25 years. He is currently an instructor at The Conservatory in Doylestown, PA, and the Pennsville (NJ) High School Music Academy, and has taught at the Darlington Arts Center, the Music School of Delaware, and Taylors Music in West Chester, PA.

Ross is also an active performer in the Delaware Valley area, playing with a variety of ensembles including the Delaware, Reading, Kennett, and Bay-Atlantic Symphonies. His principal teachers include Michael Reynolds, Marion Feldman, and Douglas McNames. He also enjoys playing chamber music and coaching student chamber groups. Every August, Ross spends several weeks in New Hampshire as a summer director for the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. He was also a founding member of Trio Jeudi, Trio des Amis, and the Kythia String Quartet.

rbeauchamp@gmahs.org

Originally from Chicago, trumpeter, educator and composer Elliot Bild got his undergraduate degree from Western Michigan University where he studied with Scott Cowan, Andrew Rathbun and Edward Simon. He just received his Masters Degree from Temple University where he studied with John Swana, Terell Stafford and Dick Oatts. In the spring of 2016, he received a grant to write all original music, inspired by poetry, to be performed with ballet. In August 2017, Elliot was selected along with 14 other fellows to participate in the Ravinia Steins Music Institute, a week-long workshop focusing on composition where he worked with Rufus Reid, Nathan Davis and Billy Childs. Later that summer, Elliot attended the Banff Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music, where he had the chance to work with Gary Bartz, Jeremy Pelt, Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey, Robin Eubanks and Tia Fuller, among others. In the Summer of 2018, Elliot was a sub trumpeter for the Big Apple Circus and became part of the faculty for Litchfield Jazz Camp. Earlier this year Elliot was commissioned to write a big band piece for the Philadelphia Clef Club big band featuring Jaleel Shaw.

Recently, he has performed with the great Philadelphia Bassist Mike Boone at Smalls Jazz Club in NYC as well as the 2019 Philadelphia Center City Jazz Festival, as part of his new working Quintet. He has also performed with such people as Don Braden, John Swana, Tim Warfield, Randy Brecker, Mike DiRubbo, Zaccai Curtis, Behn Gillece, Pablo Batista, Byron Landham, and Billy Hart.

Elliot is currently one of the top in demand freelance trumpeters the Philadelphia area performing at such venues as Chris’s Jazz Cafe, South Jazz Kitchen, Smalls Jazz Club, Time, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola,  Litchfield Jazz Festival among others. Elliot just finished recording his debut live record, which will be released early 2020.