Our Team

Biography

Teaches in Wilmington and Milford | MASTER FACULTY WITH DISTINCTION. Voice/choral department head. B.M., education, Montclair State College; M.M., voice, West Chester University. Additional studies: extensive training, Orff-Schulwerk methodology; seminars for children’s choir at Westminster Choir College. Teaching experience: Pennsville (New Jersey) schools; The Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square. Frequent guest choral conductor.

Private Lessons

• Voice

Biography

Teaches Low Brass in Wilmington | B.M., music education – euphonium concentration, University of Delaware; M.Ed., school leadership, Certificate in Special Education, Wilmington University. Leadership: Grade-level administrator, McCullough Middle School; Delaware Music Educators Association, president. Performance experience: Delaware Winds, pit orchestras, freelance performances. Teaching experience: Newark High School, Odessa High School, William Penn High School, clinician, private instructor.

Private Lessons

• Euphonium
• Trombone
• Tuba

Biography

B.A., Music, State University of New York at Oswego. Principal teachers: Christopher Arneson, Todd Graber, David Jones, voice; Robert Auler, piano; Lissa Moira, acting. Awards: Distinguished Music Award, State University of New York at Oswego; Annual Shakespeare Competition, Central NY Final – Honorable Mention. Roles: 23 Musical Theatre Productions; 7 Operas. Music Directing and Accompanying for 10 Productions. Recent highlights: Bliss Street, Theater for the New City, NYC, MD/Arranger; Spring Forth con Amore, Soloist, St. Paul and St. Andrew UMC, NYC; Bagong Bayaning Pilipino “Modern Day Filipino Heroes”, Featured Soloist, Church of St. Frances Xavier, NYC; The Music of Sir Karl Jenkins, Bass Section Leader, Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage – Carnegie Hall; Bach to Broadway Concert Series, Featured Soloist, Old Whaler’s Church, Sag Harbor NY; Mozart, Requiem in D, Bass Soloist, Orchestra Amadeus, NYC. Composer of Jane the Quene, a song cycle written written with soprano Paige Cutrona, a program in MSOD@100

Private Lessons

• Piano
• Voice

Group Classes

Biography

Teaches in Wilmington | B.A., music, University of Virginia; M.M., orchestral conducting, Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford; D.M.A., orchestral conducting, Michigan State University (ABD). Music Director: Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, Connecticut Valley Symphony Orchestra, Hartford Opera Theater. Guest conducting: Jackson Symphony, Charlottesville Symphony, Wintergreen Chamber Orchestra, Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestra, Hartford All-City Youth Orchestra, Charlottesville Opera, Abilene Opera Association, Houghton Lyric Theater, and Oberlin Winter Opera. Conducted many world premieres, including: Rachel Peters’ Wild Beasts of the Bungalow with Oberlin Winter Opera in 2020. Principal teachers: Kevin Noe, Edward Cumming, Christopher Zimmerman, Kate Tamarkin.

Biography

Teaches in Wilmington | Music Therapy. B.A., West Chester University; M.A., summa cum laude, Immaculata College; certified music therapist, Immaculata College.

Biography

B.S., Business Administration, Music Education. Experience: Elementary Music, Chorus, Steel Drums, Drum Circles, Recorders: Cape Henlopen School District.

Private Lessons

• Percussion (Drums)
• Recorder

Biography

Teaches Suzuki violin and viola, music theory, Suzuki Orchestras and Youth String Camp in Wilmington | CORE FACULTY. Suzuki Academy. B.M., violin performance, Crane School of Music, State University of New York (Potsdam); M.M., violin performance, Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford. Registered Suzuki training: ECC!, SPA, Violin Units 1-8. Member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. Principal teachers: Emlyn Ngai, John Lindsey, Ioan Harea. Pedagogy teachers: Linda Fiore, Teri Einfeldt, Dr. Sarah Hersh. Teaching experience: Delaware State University (Strings Pedagogy), New York Summer School of the Arts, Hartt Community Division (University of Hartford).

Private Lessons

• Suzuki Viola
• Suzuki Violin
• Viola
• Violin

Biography

Hailed in the New York Times for “impassioned” playing and “clear articulation and unity of purpose,” violinist Kate Ransom is a distinguished chamber musician, recitalist and teacher who has presented hundreds of concerts in major chamber music concert halls in North America and Europe. Ms. Ransom is artistic director of Serafin Ensemble, and founding violinist of Serafin String Quartet – lauded by Gramophone and Fanfare Magazine for the Naxos release of early works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon and by The Strad Magazine and American Record Guide for their debut release on Centaur. She serves as artistic director of Serafin Summer Music, a chamber music festival in Delaware. 

As founding and six-year member of the Alexander String Quartet, she received first prize and audience prize at the London String Quartet Competition and toured internationally. Kate Ransom has played to numerous composers, consulting with them in preparation for performances of their works, including Aaron Copland, Jennifer Higdon, Elliot Carter, George Rochberg, and Lowell Liebermann. She is an active collaborator on series and festivals throughout the United States and has performed with artists and ensembles such as David Coucheron, Zuill Bailey, Sara Sant’Ambrogio, Roberto Diaz, Charles Abramovic, Eliot Fisk, and members of the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, Eroica Trio, Empire Brass Quintet, and Juilliard, Orion, Attacca, and Vega String Quartets. She regularly participates as a performer in festivals such as Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival (NC), Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival (FL), Juneau Jazz and Classics (AK), and Serafin Summer Music (DE).

Ms. Ransom’s recital and solo performances include the Bach Concerto for Two Violins; complete Brahms violin sonatas in PA, TX and DE; complete violin Beethoven sonatas in DE, FL, PA and VT; and the Mozart Symphonie Concertante. She has recorded for Gallo, CRI, Centaur, Klavier, and Naxos. Ms. Ransom was formerly adjunct violin instructor at the University of Delaware and has held visiting artist positions at Brevard and Lehigh Universities. Her quartets have been Ensemble in Residence at University of Delaware, St. Lawrence University, SUNY-Potsdam, and Lehigh University.

Ms. Ransom pursued post-graduate chamber music study at The Juilliard School with Robert Mann and holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in violin performance from Yale University and University of Michigan, respectively. Her major teachers were Paul Makanovitzky, Szymon Goldberg, and Ivan Galamian, and she was a chamber music protégé of Tokyo Quartet. Devoted to organizational advancement in the arts, she has held executive positions at music schools since 1990 including 9 years as founding director of what is now the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University, and 24 years as president of The Music School of Delaware, where she is now Artist Faculty – Violin, and Artistic Director of Serafin Summer Music. Ms. Ransom plays a violin made in 1728 by the Venetian master, Sanctus Serafin.

“Impassioned…the [Ransom/Sirianni] Duo played with considerable flair…a beautifully regulated account of the Brahms…a suitably misty and dark Debussy…Mozart’s sonata benefited from a clear articulation and unity of purpose.” – The New York Times

“Every note was played so well, every nuance so worked out, that the event was almost like listening to a flawless recording.” – The Nashville Tennessean

Private Lessons

• Violin