Suzanne Lehrer
(Lower Camp Piano Specialist)
Faculty Member; Master of Music in Piano Performance, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, NJ; Master of Social Work (Management and Policy), Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Bachelor of Arts in Music with a Concentration in Piano, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Studies with Ena Bronstein Barton, German Diez, Harvey Wedeen, Jose Ramos–Santana, Jonathan Bass, Betty Stoloff and with her mother, Phyllis Alpert Lehrer; Piano Faculty Westminster Conservatory of Rider University, Director of the Westminster Conservatory Honors Music Program (pre-college division); Director, Westminster Conservatory Summer Piano Academy. Independent Piano Studio, Princeton NJ; Member of Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), Arts Advocacy Chairperson, New Jersey Music Teachers Association (NJMTA); Coordinator for NJMTA’s annual Children Helping Children Performathon. 9th summer at E/C.
Keith Roeckle
(Classical Piano)
Faculty Member. PhD in Music Education candidate, Temple University. Master of Science in Educational Administration, Drexel University. Bachelor of Music in Music Education and Jazz Studies, Temple University; Piano studies with Maria del Pico Taylor and Tom Lawton. Conductor of Temple University Night Owls Campus/Community Band. Former Chair of Performing Arts at The Lawrenceville School. 2nd Summer at E/C.
Francine Cancian
(CLASSICAL PIANO)
Faculty Member. Graduate Student in Piano Performance, University of Wyoming; Works as teacher and collaborative pianist at UW; Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance, University of Campinas, SP Brazil; Festivals include: VIII Piracicaba International Piano Festival (Brazil), Performa Clavis International Symposium (Brazil), Music Workshop of Curitiba (Brazil), Backa Palanka Inernational Festival (Serbia) and V National Meeting of cultural accessibility (Brazil). 1st summer at E/C.
Nathan Vondergeest
(CLASSICAL PIANO)
Faculty Member. Master of Music in Piano Performance candidate, University of South Carolina. Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; studies with Nicholas Susi. Studied with Mayron Tsong, Stephen Taylor, Alan Rudell; certified lifeguard, CPR; 3rd summer at E/C.
Helena Kim
(Classical Piano)
Faculty Member. DMA candidate in Piano Performance at the University of Cincinnati (CCM). Performs locally and internationally. She has appeared in various venues in Canada, Korea, Chile, France, Holland, and Spain. Also, she frequently presents at national and state conferences advocating for underrepresented composers and various pedagogical approaches. Helena was trained at the Yewon Art School, at the Saint-Petersburg pre-conservatory in Russia, and received piano performance degrees at the Université de Montréal (AD), McGill University (MMUS), and the University of British Columbia(BSc and BMUS). Helena’s primary teachers are Ran Dank, Kyoko Hashimoto, Mark Anderson, and Eugene Skovorodnikov. Currently, she is working at the University of Akron as the Coordinator of Collaborative Piano. 2nd summer at E/C.
Aakash Sridhar
(Jazz Piano)
Faculty Member. Masters of Music in Jazz Piano Performance, University of North Texas, Teaching Assistant. Piano faculty, Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music, Chennai, India. Music Analyst, Ubisoft India Studios. Bachelors of Music in Contemporary Writing and Production, Berklee College of Music. Performances as sideman/bandleader locally and internationally. Performances with Berklee Indian Ensemble. 1st Summer at E/C.
