Teachers                                                                                                      

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.