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  Todd Seeber

  Lecturer, Double Bass; Director, Double Bass Workshop, BU Tanglewood Institute

  Todd Seeber is a Lecturer of Music, Double Bass and member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Seeber also serves as an instructor with the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Other accolades include: Dean’s Scholar and Winner, Concerto-Aria Competition, 1984. First prize, ASTA Competition, Boston, 1983. Fellow, Berkshire Music Center, 1983, 1984. Principal Bass, Buffalo Philharmonic […]
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  Deborah Selig

  Lecturer in Music, Voice

  Soprano Deborah Selig’s voice has been described by the press as “radiant,” “beautifully rich,” “capable of any emotional nuance,” and “impressively nimble.” Ms. Selig performs repertoire spanning music from the baroque to contemporary in opera, oratorio, and art song across the United States. Ms. Selig is also passionate about teaching and mentoring the next generation […]
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  Boaz Sharon

  Professor, Piano

  Boaz Sharon, Professor of Piano at Boston University, is an internationally known pianist, recording artist and judge at international piano competitions. Born in Israel Boaz Sharon studied in Brussels with pianist Stefan Askenase-great interpreter of Chopin and Mozart. He was first prize winner and gold medalist at the Jaen International Piano Competition, Spain. For many […]
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  Sarah Shechtman

  Manager of Enrollment and Student Engagement, BU Tanglewood Institute

  Sarah is thrilled to be part of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute team as Manager of Enrollment and Student Engagement! With ten years of experience working in arts admissions, she previously held the positions of Director of Recruitment and Enrollment at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and Assistant Director of Admissions and Theater Division Representative […]
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  Aaron Sheehan

  Lecturer, Historical Performance - Voice

  Grammy Award-winning tenor Aaron Sheehan has quickly established himself as one of the leading American tenors of his generation. His voice is heard regularly in concert halls around the world, and he is equally comfortable in repertoire ranging from oratorio and chamber music to the opera stage. His singing has taken him to many festivals […]
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  Robert Sheena

  Lecturer in Music, Oboe and English Horn; Co-Director, Oboe Workshop, BU Tanglewood Institute

  Robert Sheena joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as its English horn player in May 1994, at the start of that year’s Boston Pops season. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his Master of Music degree from Northwestern University School of Music. During the 1986–1987 season, he […]
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  Andrew Shenton

  Professor, Musicology and Ethnomusicology; James R. Houghton Scholar of Sacred Music (School of Theology)

  Andrew Shenton is a musician, academic, prize-winning author, educator, consultant, cultural historian, and administrator based in Boston, Massachusetts. Born in England, his first professional music training was at The Royal College of Music in London, where he studied under a scholarship from The Royal College of Organists. While at the RCM he read for a […]
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  Ben Sigda

  Lighting and Sound Shop Manager

  Lighting and Sound Shop Manager Ben Sigda has been doing production work in Boston for the last 16 years since graduating from the BU College of Fine Arts School of Theatre in 2005. His work has covered most aspects of theater, dance, events, and concerts. He has worked as a freelance designer, electrician, engineer, rigger, […]
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  Jana Silver

  Art Education Field Work Coordinator

  Jana Silver holds a Doctorate in Teacher Education and an MFA in Ceramics. Prior to working at BU as the Field Work Coordinator in Art Education, she was the founder of the Art Education Program at Hampshire College where she taught for 17 years while simultaneously being the Art Licensure Program Supervisor at Mount Holyoke […]
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  Christopher Sleboda

  Associate Professor of Art, Graphic Design; Chair, BFA Graphic Design

  Christopher Sleboda is a designer, illustrator, curator, and educator. From 2005 to 2020, he served as the Director of Graphic Design at the Yale University Art Gallery. Overseeing graphic design and wayfinding for the museum—from exhibition identities, motion graphics, and signage to brochures, programs, and art books—Sleboda worked closely with graphic design students in the […]
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  Kathleen Sleboda

  Lecturer of Art, Graphic Design

  Kathleen Sleboda is an art director, graphic designer, and illustrator. Her work crosses disciplines and often involves the acts of making, curating, collaborating, and documenting. She is co-founder and design director of Draw Down Books and from 2013 to 2019 she curated the website Women of Graphic Design. For the past 15 years she has […]
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  Matt Smallcomb

  Drumset Class Instructor

  Matt Smallcomb is currently a percussionist with Alarm Will Sound, a collaborative ensemble at the forefront of contemporary music and reputed as “one of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene” (New York Times). With a career spanning across diverse genres, Smallcomb has performed with leading artists and musicians including Tyondai […]
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  Andrew Smith

  Lecturer in Music, Composition and Music Theory

  Andrew Smith is active in Boston’s musical community as a composer, guitarist and educator. His music has been showcased at nationally recognized venues such as Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center, Hill Auditorium, and the Hawaii Theatre, and presented at various festivals including Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, the University of Central Missouri’s New Music Festival, the […]
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  Gareth Dylan Smith

  Assistant Professor of Music, Music Education

  Gareth Dylan Smith is active nationally and internationally as a teacher, speaker, researcher and drummer. His main research interest areas are drum kit studies and popular music education, and his principal disciplinary approaches are sociological, philosophical, and autoethnographic. Themes in his scholarship include eudaimonia, improvisation, creativities, punk pedagogies, and meaningfulness. Gareth’s work has been published […]
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  Jacqueline Smith

  Lecturer, Music Education

  Jacqueline Smith is a Lecturer in Music Education at Boston University. Before coming to BU, she was an Adjunct Faculty in Music and Dance Education at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School, and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she was Visiting Assistant Professor in 2018-2019. Before moving to higher education, she taught instrumental […]
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  Tawnya Smith

  Associate Professor of Music, Music Education

  Dr. Tawnya D. Smith is an integrative researcher who explores expressive arts principles to promote holistic learning, wellbeing, and sustainability in music education settings. She has an extensive qualitative methodology background and has collaborated on a number of research projects in music and arts education. Her current research is in the area of trauma and […]
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  David Snyder

  Assistant Professor of Art, Sculpture; Chair of Graduate Studies in Sculpture

  David Snyder’s sculpture, video, installation, and image-based work engages the unstable and mutable potential of objects, language, imagery, physical space, and social relationships. Through the distortion and reconfiguration of familiar material and rhetorical constructs, the work addresses persistent, under-contended assumptions that contribute to the formation of economic and social value, cultural hierarchies, and divisive polemics. […]
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  Samuel Solomon

  Lecturer in Music, Percussion

  Samuel Z. Solomon teaches percussion at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Boston University, is Percussion Director of The Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), and Artistic Director of the Juilliard Summer Percussion Seminar. From 2007-2011 he was president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society.  His book, “How to Write for Percussion,” has received critical acclaim […]
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  Mark Stanley

  Professor, Lighting Design

  Mark Stanley is head of the BU Lighting Design program. His professional credits include serving currently as Resident Lighting Designer for the New York City Ballet, where he has designed lighting for more than 225 world premieres for their repertory, including works for Peter Martins, Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck, Christopher Wheeldon, Susan Stroman, William Forsythe, […]
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  Jane Starkman

  Lecturer, Historical Performance - Baroque Violin

  Jane Starkman received BM and MM degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music. She continued her studies in Basel, Switzerland, at the Schola Cantorum with Jaap Schroeder and in New York with William Lincer. While living in Basel she performed with the Radio Orchestra Basel. Ms. Starkman has performed as both a violinist and […]