Instructors

Anna Bauer, Piano Program Director - M.M. Fresno Pacific University, Nuremberg Music Conservatory (Germany).
Anna Bauer is the Piano Program Director of the Goshen College Community School of the Arts, where she oversees instruction of the 100 + CSA piano students. She also offers support and supervision to the Goshen College students who study piano pedagogy in the College curriculum. Anna has taught students of all levels over the past 13 years, and is fluent in Russian, German and English languages.

Brook Bennett, cello - M.M. SUNY-Purchase, B.M. Cleveland Institute of Music.
Brook Bennett has been a faculty instructor with the CSA since September, 2004. A registered Suzuki cello instructor, Bennett studied Suzuki pedagogy with Catherine Walker and at the Chicago Suzuki Institute with Barbara Wampner. Bennett is also a faculty member in the Credo Chamber Music Association's "Opus 1" program and was a faculty member in Credo's 2007 summer program. He is a former faculty member of the New York City-based Amadeus Conservatory of Music and Musika.

Amos Burkholder, clarinet, saxophone, recorder - A.Mus D. and M.M. University of Oregon, B.A. Goshen College.
Amos Burkholder has taught applied woodwind lessons to students of all ages, and has served as a college instructor at EMU (Va.), and Goshen College, where he taught music education courses and directed instrumental ensembles. At Goshen College, he founded and directed the Early Music Consort. He has also organized the Maple City Recorder Consort of the Goshen community.

Lyn Buschert, violin and viola - B.A. Goshen College.
Lyn Buschert is an active community and church musician, including serving as concertmaster of the Maple City Chamber Orchestra. She has studied Suzuki pedagogy with experienced local teachers, and began teaching for CSA in 2003. In addition to her teaching, Lyn plays often in varied chamber music groups for special events in the surrounding area.

Jenny Campagna, Kindermusik® - B.A. Anderson University.
Jenny Campagna has taught Kindermusik classes through the CSA for six years. A licensed Kindermusik educator, Campagna has taught courses in Goshen, Mishawaka (Ind.) and Lima (Ohio). She is also active as a church musician and children's choir director at her local church.

Manica Gentry, piano - Performer's Certificate, Trinity College of Music, London (Thailand).
Manica Gentry has taught piano lessons to students through the CSA for 4 years. Before that time she taught applied piano to students from grades 3 through 8 at Trinity College of Music and Royal School of Music (Thailand), and was also a piano teacher at St. Joseph Convent School and the Progress School in Thailand.

Sandy Hill, voice, Shout for Joy Children's Choir - M.M. University of Texas at Austin.
Coloratura soprano Sandy Hill has taught private vocal instruction in the Goshen community since moving here with her family in 1999, and before that at the Wausau Conservatory of Music (Wis.). She has performed on Wisconsin Public Radio's Live From the Elvehjem, and has appeared in a variety of musical and operatic roles. She was chosen as an intern to participate in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Internship Program at Pennsylvania State University with master teacher Jean Westerman Gregg. Sandy has taught voice with the Community School of the Arts since 2003 and recently accepted the role as director of Shout for Joy Children's Choir.

Rebecca Hovan, flute - M.M. North Texas University, B.M. Middle Tennessee State.
Rebecca Hovan teaches applied flute through the CSA and is also a music faculty member at Goshen College and Indiana University-South Bend. Hovan was a winner of the National Flute Association Masterclass Competition, and has given workshops at NFA conventions, various universities and flute festivals. She is presently Chair of the NFA Pedagogy Committee and is co-author of the Blocki Flute Method Book II.

Ramona Kim, harp - M.M. Indiana University at South Bend, B.M. Azusa Pacific University.
A student of the harp for 15 + years, Ramona Kim received her university degrees in harp performance. She also trained in Suzuki harp teacher training and is experienced in teaching students of all ages and levels. She regularly performs for events in the area, and has played with Lake Shore Symphony (Chicago) and Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra (St. Joseph, Mich.).

Debra Kauffman, violin - B.A. Goshen College.
Debra Kauffman has taught in the Goshen College Suzuki program since 1983, and also served as its director from 1990-97. That program is now part of CSA, for which she gives general oversight through her current work as Associate Director of the Music Center.

Shelley Kauffman, piano - B.A. Goshen College (major in elementary education, minor in piano pedagogy).
Shelley Kauffman returned to GC to teach piano in the fall of 2006, where she had taught earlier as a student intern. She has been an elementary school teacher as well as a piano teacher in central Indiana for the past 2 years, including teaching group lessons for second graders for Blackford County Community Foundation. Shelley also served as the professional piano instructor for Taylor University's Center for Music Development just prior to her return to the Goshen community.

Talashia Keim Yoder, dance - B.A. Tabor College.
Talashia Yoder has trained in ballet, Irish step-dancing, tap, and additional styles of dance at various levels, and has taught dance for the past eight years. She has also been active as a choreographer in productions on many stages, including those of Bethany Christian Schools, Hesston College, Tabor College, and has recently choreographed several Goshen College productions.

Beverly Lapp, piano - M.M. Westminster Choir College, B.A. Goshen College.
Associate professor of music at Goshen College, Beverly Lapp teaches applied piano and piano pedagogy, along with music appreciation courses. She coordinated pre-college piano instruction for Goshen College in the years before the Community School of the Arts was organized. Beverly serves as co-chair of the Committee on Practica and Internships for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, and writes regularly on issues in piano pedagogy for publication. She also co-directs the annual Goshen College Piano Workshop and Academy.

Patrice Penny-Henderson, Voices-n-Harmony Gospel Choir - M.Ed. Indiana Wesleyan University, B.Mus Ed. Oklahoma University.
Patrice Penny-Henderson has worked with church and community choirs for 15+ years in the Michiana area. She is an elementary music specialist in the Elkhart Community Schools, and currently the choir director at Agape Missionary Baptist Church in Elkhart. She has directed the Voices-n-Harmony choir since 2003.

Rosemary Rupp, Rejoice! Children's Choir - M.S.E. Indiana University at South Bend, B.A. Goshen College.
Rosemary Rupp has more than 25 years experience teaching elementary school music, and currently teaches at West Goshen and Prairie View schools. She is also active as a church musician, leading children's choirs for many years. She began her association with CSA in 2006 as director of the Rejoice! Children's Choir.

Kathryn Sherer, piano - M.M Southern Methodist University, B.A. Goshen College, further study at Royal College of Music & Guildhall School, London.
Kathryn Sherer teaches applied piano through the CSA and is professor of music emeritus at Goshen College, where she founded the Goshen College Preparatory and Pedagogy program in 1966. She also helped establish the summer Piano Workshop and Academy which has been held at Goshen College since 1968. A noted pianist, she performs as soloist and accompanist for Suzuki string students, and is continuo player for the Elkhart Symphony and Maple City Chamber Orchestra.

Lukas Simpson, guitar and mandolin.
Luke has studied classical guitar, jazz and guitar theory, and taken additional studies at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. He has taught students of all ages and levels for several years, and has been associated with CSA since 2005. For the past 4 summers, Luke has also taught and directed at Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Guitar camps in three Indiana locations. In addition to his private teaching, Luke is a singer/songwriter and performs regularly with the Goldmine Pickers.

Christine Thögersen, organ, piano, piano for special needs - M.M. Illinois State, B-Exam Berliner Kirchen Musikschule, B.A. Goshen College.
Christine Thögersen has been affiliated with Goshen College for 10 years where she teaches applied organ and piano, music education and music appreciation courses. In the Community School of the Arts Chris teaches organ, piano, and piano for special needs students. She is also a part-time elementary school music teacher in the Fairfield school system.

Rosalyn Troiano, Suzuki String Director - D.M.A., Eastman School of Music, Rochester (NY).
Rosalyn Troiano is the Suzuki String Director of the Goshen College Community School of the Arts, where she teaches private violin and viola students, Suzuki group classes, and directs the Home School Orchestra. Rosalyn received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2000 from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester (NY), where she was teaching assistant to viola professor George Taylor. She also studied Suzuki pedagogy with Anastasia Jempelis and Christophe Bussuat. In April 2006, Rosalyn was awarded the Shinichi Suzuki-American Suzuki Foundation Teacher Training Scholarship to study Suzuki pedagogy with Goshen College alumnus and author Ed Sprunger at the American Suzuki Institute in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Jessica Weber, piano - M.M. University of Oklahoma, B.M. Western Michigan University.
Jessica Weber has taught piano students through the CSA since 2004, and directed its piano program activities from 2004-05. Jessica studied piano with Marvin Blickenstaff at Goshen College during her high school years and attended the Goshen College Piano Workshop Academy as a student. She is an active member of MTNA and IMTA, serving as chair of the District B Hoosier Auditions.

Kyle Weirich, trombone, euphonium - M.M. VanderCook College of Music, B.M. Western Michigan University.
Kyle Weirich has taught high school music since 1993, and currently serves as orchestra director at Elkhart Central High Schoo. He is also an active church musician, and an experienced applied music teacher of brass instruments.

Brian Wiebe, violin - M.M. Northwestern University, B.A. Bethel College (Kan.).
Brian Wiebe has served as a high school and college music teacher and orchestra director in Kidron, Ohio and Bethel, Kan. In both locations he also founded and directed Suzuki violin programs for young children. He is an experienced violin and viola teacher to students of all ages, and is also an active church musician. Brian has been at Goshen College since 2002, when he became the Executive Director of the Goshen College Music Center. He has also recently been named director of the Elkhart County Symphony Association's Youth Honors Orchestra.

Garner Wireman, hand drum.
Garner Wireman is a professional drum circle facilitator and has facilitated over 250 hours of drum groups. He and his wife Angie Wireman recently founded Pulse Beat Nation, a recreational music-making company that offers drum circles to businesses, organizations, and individuals. A student in the GC organizational leadership studies program, Garner's vision for drumming led him to be named in July 2006, as the first Goshen College student in the adult program to receive a grant from the Goshen College Business Department's Entrepreneurship Learning Center to assist in his endeavors.

Goshen College Student Music Interns

Erin Diller, piano
Kimberly Glick, oboe
Cassie Greer, voice
Nathan Grieser, saxophone
Kirsten Hartwig, piano
Aubrey Helmuth, piano
Mio Kurahashi, piano
Andrea Nussbaum, trumpet
Laura Sharp, piano
Anna Showalter, piano
Chara Sonntag, piano
Joshua Tyson, piano
Beth Wheeler, flute
Christopher Wheeler, piano