Voice, Chorale, Opera Workshop, Singer’s Diction, Vocal Pedagogy, Choral Conducting, Chamber Singers

Joel Jameson, Bass, has enjoyed a prolific performing career.  As a leading Bass he has performed a wide range of Verdi Bass roles including:  Ramfis and the King in Aida; Sparafucile in Rigoletto; Padre Guardiano in La Forza del Destino; the Friar in Don Carlo; Wurm in Luisa Miller; and Dr. Grenvil and Marquis in La Traviata.  In other Bass roles he has performed Sarastro in Die Zauberflote; Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro; Leporello, Il Commendatore, and Masetto in Don Giovanni; Colline in La Boheme, and Ralph in La Jolie de Perth.  Noted debuts include the prestigious Caramoor Opera Festival in Katonah, New York, singing the role of Gazella with Will Crutchfield conducting Lucrezia Borgia; Houston Grand Opera singing the Fifth Jew in Salome conducted by Christoph Eschenbach with the Houston Symphony; and Minnesota Opera singing the King of Egypt in Aida conducted by Richard Buckley.  Other companies include, Pittsburgh Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera North Carolina, Cleveland Opera, Opera Festival of New York, Long Island Opera, West Side Opera, and Opera Illinois.

He has studied Voice and Operatic coaching with Dodi Protero, Dr. Tom Cleveland, Metropolitan Opera Bass Jerome Hines and his wife Lucia Evangelista Hines.  Mr. Jameson participated in and worked directly with Jerome Hines in his young artist development program, Opera Music Theater International, (OMTI) of Newark, New Jersey where he was introduced to Mr. Hines’ opera, I Am the Way.  Recently, Mr. Jameson had the privilege of performing the role of Jesus in the Resurrection of Lazarus scene and holds the distinction of the only Bass who has performed Jesus in this scene since the death of Mr. Hines. 
Mr. Jameson, a noted specialist in German Lieder, has recently studied with Ms. Margo Garrett at the Juilliard School of Music.  His studies culminated in a recital tour of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise.  The tour ended with his debut at Paul Recital Hall, Juilliard School of Music.

As a concert artist, he has performed the Bass solos in Mozart’s Requiem with the Dartmouth Glee Club; Verdi’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah.

As a conductor, he has held several church positions as Director of Choirs where he has conducted Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Hear My Prayer, and Mozart’s Requiem as well as countless individual works.  His recent achievements with the Nyack College Chorale have been two concert performances with MidAmerica Productions at Carnegie Hall performing Morton Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna, and Eugene Butler’s Emmanuel.  He has taken the choir on three domestic tours and currently is planning a European Tour to England, Wales, and Scotland.  Mr. Jameson received his Bachelors degree in vocal performance from Illinois Wesleyan University, Masters degree in vocal performance from the University of Southern California, and an Artist’s Diploma in Opera at Duquesne University.  He has been a voice teacher and opera coach in the New York area for over 10 years.

Flute, Music Theory, Ear Training, Music History, Woodwind Methods, Counterpoint

Flute studies with Julius Baker, James Pappoutsakis, Hans-Peter Schmitz. Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, Germany.  Substitute flutist with New York Philharmonic and New Jersey Symphony.  Performances, recordings, radio and television broadcasts with New York Philharmonic conducted by Kurt Masur, Leonard Bernstein, Riccardo Muti, Eric Leinsdorf, Leonard Slatkin and Zubin Mehta.  Has performed with the Mostly Mozart Orchestra and concertized widely in France, Germany, Norway, Holland, Poland and the United States.  Performances on French and Italian National TV.  Founding member of The Kenote Trio.  Presented in three recitals at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, by MidAmerica Productions: 1999, 2001, and 2005.  Other performances include: the New York Philharmonic Chamber Music Series in Merkin Hall, 1999; for No Longer Alone Ministries, Lancaster, PA, at the Blue Mountain Festival and as flutist with The Chorus of Westerly recital series in Westerly, RI, July 2006.  Lecture/performances at the annual Fulbright Conference in Baltimore, 2005, as a member of the Arts Task Force; presenter at the Biennial Meeting of the American Bach Society, in Leipzig, in 2006; participant at the Institute for Music History Pedagogy (College Music Society) in Indianapolis, 2006; at the National Flute Association Convention in Nashville, 2004; at Nyack College as part of the Library Current Issues Series, 2004; as presenter on the Faculty Scholarly Dialog Series, 2005, Nyack College; and lecture/performances on Scandinavian music at various venues including: for the Crown Prince of Norway at the Norseman’s Federation National Conference, and at ScanFest Nordic Heritage Festival in NJ, and on the Bernardsville Library Concert Series.  Recent publications include: “Leipzig Set: The Flute Music of Leipzig Composers” (Publication in Fluit, journal of the Netherlands Flute Society) Jan. 2005; publication of Wind Quintet by Sigfrid Karg-Elert; and program notes for the New York Philharmonic (Merkin Hall/chamber music series, 1998-2003).  CDs include: Concert Spirituel recorded live in France (Excelsis XL6, 2000); Music of Alec Wilder with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra (Kleos label, 2001); and The Miracle by William Bolcom, recorded with Raritan Winds and the Rutgers University Glee Club (Ethereal Recordings ER-135, 2002).  Soon to be released: Sacred Service by Miriam Gideon, for chamber ensemble and choir (Naxos label).  Campus Fulbright Program Advisor for Nyack College.

Member of Board of Directors of Sibelius Society, Ltd. Research for doctoral dissertation on the Post-Sibelian Symphony in Finland conducted as a Finnish government scholar. Lecturer on the subject of contemporary Finnish music since the mid-seventies. Dr. Koponen’s choral arrangements are published by Boosey and Hawkes, and “Zion’s Walls” has sold more than 350,000 copies, having been recorded by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Utah Symphony.  Member of the International Trumpet Guild, the American Choral Director’s Association, the Christian Instrumental Directors Association, the Sibelius Society, and the Finlandia Foundation. Official college representative to the National Association of Schools of Music since 1984.

Piano, Theory, Ear Training, Form & Analysis, Chamber Music, Piano Studies: Pedagogy, Accompanying, Literature

Tammy Lum, pianist is an international performer and pedagogue. She has won multiple competitions, including the 1990 Leschetizky Foundation Competition, which presented her in her U.S. solo debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in the same year, the 1990 Competition of the Five Town Music and Arts Foundation, the 1988 Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition, the 1988, The Mieczyslaw Munz Foundation Scholarship Competition, and the 1987 William Boyd Competition. She was also a prizewinner of the 1995 New Orleans International Piano Competition, and the Young Keyboard Artists Association (1985). Her solo piano CD recording, “My Treasure Box” was released by Hugo Productions, Inc. in 1999.  Recent performances, workshops and collaborations include recitals and master class tours in America, China and Hong Kong; commissioning of Thomas Oboe Lee’s Piano Quintet and its world premiere with the award winning Formosa Quartet (2008); presentation of  “The Twilight Stood” a “one-act opera” of Emily Dickinson song cycle by Leon Kirchner with soprano, Beverly Hoch at the College Music Society’s 50th Anniversary National Conference in Salt Lake City (2007) Utah; chamber music collaboration with the Amasi Trio, which recorded William Vollinger’s “Trio Parables” and “Violinist in the Mall,” winning the 2005 Friends and Enemies of New York; and violist, Lawrence Dutton, bassist, John Patitucci, and violinist, Joseph Lin. Ms. Lum also produced and performed multimedia piano programs for the Hong Kong International Arts Carnival Festival. Concerto performances were with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Philharmonic Orchestras, Augusta, Georgia Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Lawrence Symphony Orchestra. Recitals were in Alice Tully Hall and Annual Beethoven Festival in New York, Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, La Salle Cortot in Paris, City Hall Theatres in Hong Kong. She received her BM and MM from the Eastman School of Music, participated in the Professional Studies Program at The Juilliard School, and received her Doctor of Musical Arts at the Manhattan School of Music. A passionate believer of connecting communities in music and art, she is the founder of the American Liszt Society Mid-Hudson Chapter, a member of the New York Music Teachers Association, Rockland County Music Teachers Guild, vice president and board member of the Soirée Society of the Arts in Rockland, NY. She is a tenured professor at Nyack College in New York.

Music in the Elementary Schools, Foundations for Excellence, Functional Piano, Basic Music Skills, Student Teaching

Recipient of “Model Classroom Teacher Award” by Music Educator’s National Conference and “Jenkins Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education.”  General music specialist and hostess of “The Classical Music Show” on WCWP-FM from 1997 to 2000. Presented workshops at Concordia College, Hunter College, Mt. Vernon Hospital, and King’s Highway United Methodist Church. Chairperson of the Westchester Task Force on Issues of Loss and Grief in Children. Maintains a private social work practice in White Plains, N.Y. Formerly. General and choral music educator and music department chairperson in the Mt. Vernon (NY) Public Schools. Former leader of Asbury United Methodist Church, Tuckahoe, NY, from 1991 to 1997. Currently a member of the administrative board, chairperson of Missions, and certified Lay Speaker.