Teachers
Guitar
Eddy Troxler
Eddy has been a working musician for the past twenty years as well as a successful teacher for the past eight years. He performs regularly in the New England area with various blues, rock and jazz bands as well as solo classical gigs. Primarily a guitarist, he is also a composer and arranger. He holds a bachelors degree in professional music from Berklee College of Music in Boston and a Masters degree in education from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Eddy is currently teaching guitar, piano, and woodwinds at City Music in Gardner, MA as well as teaching group and private lessons for Thayer Symphony Music School in Leominster, MA. He is also teaching guitar as well as music theory courses at Mount Wachusett Community College.
Voice/Piano
Elizabeth Keusch
Elizabeth, soprano, is rapidly emerging as a major figure on the world vocal scene in both concert and operatic performances. She debuted with Boston Symphony Orchestra and Robert Spano in the American premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's La Pasion Segun San Marcos. Performances of Academy Award winning composer Tan Dun's Water Passion for St. Matthew have taken her to the Europaische Musikfest 2000 in Stuttgart, Germany for the world premiere in addition to performances in London, Tokyo, Singapore, Macau, Los Angeles, Denver, Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Oregon Bach Festival. The soprano has been in demand for performances at festivals such as Tanglewood, BAM's Next Wave, Wiener Festwochen, Wiener Hoergaenge, Paris's Festival d'automne, Berline Festwochen, Berlin's Festival Ultraschall and Australia's Perth International Festival. Concert performances include appearances with the Dallas Symphony, Minnesota Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, New World Symphony, American Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic and Boston Philharmonic orchestras. On the operatic stage she has sung premieres with Paris Opera, Stuttgart State Opera, Neue Oper Wein, and Encompass New Opera Theater among others. The soprano has collaborated extensively with Helmut Rilling singing works of Bach, Handel, Brahms, and Mozart at the International Bachakademie Stuttgart and the Oregon Bach Festival. Elizabeth Keusch holds a Bachelor of Music degree from University of North Texas, a Masters of Music and an Artist Diploma from New England Conservatory where she was named the 2001 Presidential Scholar.
Voice
Brenda Caldwell
Brenda is organist, choir director and director of Music Ministry at Christ Church Fitchburg. Her career in church music began at the age of 13 when she was hired to play the organ for a church in her hometown of Manchester, NH. Since then she has had a passion for servicing the Lord through the gift of music. She received her BA from Boston University School for the Arts majoring in organ performance and choral conducting, and her Masters of Music from Boston University majoring in organ and harpsichord. Brenda has played numerous recitals throughout New England, and has appeared on many organ series including Trinity Church - Boston, Mechanics Hall - Worcester, Kotschmar series in Portland, ME and Methuen Memorial Hall series.
Flute
Kathy Garner Iovieno
Kathy Garner Iovieno received her Bachelor of Music from the Boston Conservatory and her Master of Music from the Boston University School of Music where her principal teachers were William Grass, James Pappoutsakis, and Doriot Anthony Dwyer. Further influential teachers were Thomas Nyfenger, Julius Baker, Robert Willoughby, and Lois Schaeffer. She has performed extensively with orchestras and chamber groups throughout the New England area, including the Nashua Symphony, Indian Hill Orchestra, New Hampshire Philharmonic, and Boston Light Opera. She has taught privately for many years and was on the music faculties of Thayer Conservatory, the St. Paul School, and Bowdoin College. Ms. Iovieno has recently returned to the States after living for several years in Vienna, Austria and Nice, France where she was involved in international ministry and maintained a private teaching studio.
Eddy Troxler
Eddy has been a working musician for the past twenty years as well as a successful teacher for the past eight years. He performs regularly in the New England area with various blues, rock and jazz bands as well as solo classical gigs. Primarily a guitarist, he is also a composer and arranger. He holds a bachelors degree in professional music from Berklee College of Music in Boston and a Masters degree in education from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Eddy is currently teaching guitar, piano, and woodwinds at City Music in Gardner, MA as well as teaching group and private lessons for Thayer Symphony Music School in Leominster, MA. He is also teaching guitar as well as music theory courses at Mount Wachusett Community College.
Voice/Piano
Elizabeth Keusch
Elizabeth, soprano, is rapidly emerging as a major figure on the world vocal scene in both concert and operatic performances. She debuted with Boston Symphony Orchestra and Robert Spano in the American premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's La Pasion Segun San Marcos. Performances of Academy Award winning composer Tan Dun's Water Passion for St. Matthew have taken her to the Europaische Musikfest 2000 in Stuttgart, Germany for the world premiere in addition to performances in London, Tokyo, Singapore, Macau, Los Angeles, Denver, Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Oregon Bach Festival. The soprano has been in demand for performances at festivals such as Tanglewood, BAM's Next Wave, Wiener Festwochen, Wiener Hoergaenge, Paris's Festival d'automne, Berline Festwochen, Berlin's Festival Ultraschall and Australia's Perth International Festival. Concert performances include appearances with the Dallas Symphony, Minnesota Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, New World Symphony, American Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic and Boston Philharmonic orchestras. On the operatic stage she has sung premieres with Paris Opera, Stuttgart State Opera, Neue Oper Wein, and Encompass New Opera Theater among others. The soprano has collaborated extensively with Helmut Rilling singing works of Bach, Handel, Brahms, and Mozart at the International Bachakademie Stuttgart and the Oregon Bach Festival. Elizabeth Keusch holds a Bachelor of Music degree from University of North Texas, a Masters of Music and an Artist Diploma from New England Conservatory where she was named the 2001 Presidential Scholar.
Voice
Brenda Caldwell
Brenda is organist, choir director and director of Music Ministry at Christ Church Fitchburg. Her career in church music began at the age of 13 when she was hired to play the organ for a church in her hometown of Manchester, NH. Since then she has had a passion for servicing the Lord through the gift of music. She received her BA from Boston University School for the Arts majoring in organ performance and choral conducting, and her Masters of Music from Boston University majoring in organ and harpsichord. Brenda has played numerous recitals throughout New England, and has appeared on many organ series including Trinity Church - Boston, Mechanics Hall - Worcester, Kotschmar series in Portland, ME and Methuen Memorial Hall series.
Flute
Kathy Garner Iovieno
Kathy Garner Iovieno received her Bachelor of Music from the Boston Conservatory and her Master of Music from the Boston University School of Music where her principal teachers were William Grass, James Pappoutsakis, and Doriot Anthony Dwyer. Further influential teachers were Thomas Nyfenger, Julius Baker, Robert Willoughby, and Lois Schaeffer. She has performed extensively with orchestras and chamber groups throughout the New England area, including the Nashua Symphony, Indian Hill Orchestra, New Hampshire Philharmonic, and Boston Light Opera. She has taught privately for many years and was on the music faculties of Thayer Conservatory, the St. Paul School, and Bowdoin College. Ms. Iovieno has recently returned to the States after living for several years in Vienna, Austria and Nice, France where she was involved in international ministry and maintained a private teaching studio.