Faculty & Staff
Smith faculty offer performance courses in flute, voice, piano, fortepiano, organ, harpsichord, violin, viola, cello, conducting and chamber music. Performance instruction on other instruments is offered through the Five Colleges and through selected adjunct teachers in the area.
Faculty
Raphael Atlas
Professor of Music
Peter Bloom
Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities
Gregory Brown
Assistant Director of Choral
Activities & Lecturer
Jane Bryden
Iva Dee Hiatt Professor of Music (voice)
Kivie Cahn–Lipman
Lecturer in Music (cello)
Karen Smith Emerson
Elsie Irwin Sweeney Professor
of Music (voice)
Judith Gordon
Assistant Professor of Music (piano)
Conor Hanick
Visiting Artist and Lecturer in Piano
Jonathan Hirsh
Senior Lecturer & Director of Orchestral and Choral Activities
Grant Moss
Senior Lecturer & Organist to the College
Clifton J. "Jerry" Noble, Jr.
Accompanist
Joel Pitchon
Associate Professor of Violin and Chamber Music
Margaret Sarkissian
Professor of Music
Richard Sherr
Caroline L. Wall '27 Professor of Music & Chair of Department
Steve Waksman
Associate Professor of Music and American Studies
Donald Wheelock
Irwin and Pauline Alper Glass Professor of Music (emeritus)
Adjunct Faculty
Claire Arenius
drumset
Fred Aldrich
horn
Sarah Briggs
violin
Herbert Burtis
voice
Phillip de Fremery
guitar
Rebecca Eldredge
bassoon
Ronald Gorevic
viola
Donna Gouger
trumpet
Judith Gray
voice
Kirsten Hadden Lipkens
oboe
Marjorie Melnick
voice
Marie Volcy Pelletier
cello
Ellen Redman
flute, irish flute, wind ensemble, wailing banshees
Alice Robbins
gamba, cello
Genevieve Rose
jazz ensemble
Emily Samuels
recorder
Lynn Sussman
clarinet
Yasu Suzuki
bass
Felice Swados
harp
Dan Warner
electroacoustic music
If you would like to reach any of our adjuncts, or if have questions about instruments not listed here, please contact our Assistant to the Chair for Performance, Joel Pitchon.
Staff
Heather Kuhn
Events coordinator
Nancy Lautenbach
Publicity coordinator
Linda Shaughnessy
Administrative assistant
