Music Faculty
John Albertson
John Albertson, Professor Emeritus of Music at George Washington University, is an applied music instructor in Classical and Jazz Guitar.
Robert Baker
Robert Baker is a singer who has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, the Washington National Opera, the National Symphony, and with choral organizations across the country. In addition to teaching voice lessons and in the classroom, he is the current Program Head for Music.
Lori Barnet
Lori Barnet has been a faculty member at the George Washington University since 1991 where she teaches cello, coaches chamber music, serves as area coordinator for string studies, and appears regularly in faculty performances
Anthony Blake Clark
Anthony Blake Clark enjoys a reputation as one of the freshest young voices in classical music.
Douglas Boyce
Douglas Boyce writes chamber music that draws on Renaissance traditions and modernist aesthetics, building rich rhythmic structures that shift between order, fragmentation, elegance, and ferocity.
Joseph Connell
Joseph Connell teaches percussion lessons and directs the GW Percussion Ensemble.
Alison Crockett
Vocalist and Executive Director of Generations of Vocal Jazz.
Magdalena Duhagon
Born in Uruguay, guitarist Magdalena Duhagon has performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Middle East and South America, giving concerts in cities like Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Alexandria, Cairo, Beyrouth, Amman, Prague and Amsterdam.
Elizabeth Field
Elizabeth Field teaches violin and chamber music in the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design Music Program.
Mary Findley
Mary Findley has been featured as a violin soloist with many orchestras, including the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Schippers.
Eileen Guenther
Dr. Eileen Guenther is the Professor of Church Music at Wesley Theological Seminary and a Lecturer in Music at The George Washington University.
Loren Kajikawa
Loren Kajikawa is an associate professor of music. His main area of research and teaching is American music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with special attention to the dynamics of race and politics.
Jeff Kempskie
Jeff Kempskie is active in the Washington, D.C., area as a church musician, choral conductor, accompanist, music educator, and singer.
James Levy
Adjunct Professor Emeritus James Levy is a jazz pianist, composer and educator.
Kip Lornell
Kip Lornell has been teaching courses in American music and ethnomusicology at GW since 1992.
Fred Marcellus
Current Contractor and Trumpet with the Washington Ballet Orchestra, First Sergeant 257th Army Band-D.C. National Guard, Freelance Musician-Washington, D.C.
Eugene Montague
Eugene Montague joined the faculty at the George Washington University in the fall of 2009, having previously taught for several years at the University of Central Florida.
Toby Mountain
Toby is an educator and an audio mastering engineer with credits ranging from David Bowie to Alison Krauss.
Molly Orlando
Pianist Molly Orlando is recognized as a soloist, collaborator, and teacher throughout the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area.
Jon Ozment
Jon Ozment is a jazz piano instructor. He has over 30 years of experience in performance, teaching, improvisation, theory, and jazz history.
Malinee Peris
Sri Lankan–born Malinee Jayasinghe-Peris teaches piano at the George Washington University as Professor Emeritus of Music.
David Perkel
An active educator, Dr. Perkel is professor of trombone and euphonium at Towson University and professor of trombone at George Washington University.
Amy Reiff
Amy Reiff is a lecturer of voice in the Music Program of the George Washington University's Corcoran School of the Arts and Design.
Millicent Scarlett
Millicent Scarlett is an adjunct professor of voice and vocal facilitator in the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design's Music Program.
Michael J. Schmitz
A native of Dyersville, Iowa, Professor Schmitz began his musical studies on trumpet under instruction from his father at age ten and switched to trombone two years later.
Stephani Stang
Stephani Stang has been a member of the George Washington University Music faculty since 1997. She previously held the position of Lecturer in Flute at both Howard University and Catholic University.
Heather Stebbins
Heather Stebbins is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music that highlights her fascination with the kinetic and emotive properties of sound.
Michaela Trnkova
Michaela Trnkova, international harpist, is Lecturer in Harp at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design’s Music Program.
Uri Wassertzug
Uri Wassertzug is an adjunct professor of Viola and Chamber Music.
Stephen Wellman
Bachelor of Music, MDiv, PhD (ABD). US Navy veteran, served 24 years as a vocalist with the Navy Band Sea Chanters.
A. Scott Wood
A. Scott Wood is director of orchestral activities at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of Arts and Design.
Ning Yu
Praised for her "taut and impassioned performance" by the New York Times, pianist Ning Yu performs with vigor and dedication for traditional and avant-garde repertoire of the 20th and 21st century on stages across the United States, Europe and Asia.
