Dean of Faculty

Dr. Judith Luce is a professor emeritus in Educational Administration at State University of New York, College at Brockport. She researched and published studies relating to excellence in teaching and taught in their post-master’s degree program to prepare teachers for work in administration. She served as a school principal in Lyons and Penn Yan Central School Districts and taught elementary school before that. Judy grew up outside of Niagara Falls. As a youngster she was a piano student who never practiced and dropped out quickly. After retirement she got a second chance. Rick bought her a beautiful piano and she began a long-delayed study. Now a piano technician specializing in restoration and fifth-year piano student, she finds joy and challenge in her quest to develop her piano skills. Judy is continuing her support and facilitation of top-quality education for all, especially in the arts. St. Peter’s Community Arts Academy is a wonderful asset to its students, their families, and the whole area that she is glad to serve here.

Kirsten Burrall (Visual Arts)
Kirsten earned her Bachelors of Arts Degree with Honors from Hartwick College in 1991. She has studied art in Madrid, Spain and  Athens, Greece and has had an internship with the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.   She is currently working on her Masters in Education from Elmira College to be permanently certified in the Visual Arts in the State of New York.  She has lived in Geneva for four years and before that taught art in schools in the Elmira area.  She has taught art history, painting, drawing and ceramics.

MaryAnn Hamilton (Adult Mixed Choir, Organ)
MaryAnn Hamilton was named to the position of Parish Musician at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church upon completion of her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY in May 2000. Ms. Hamilton plays the organ for Sunday services and directs the Adult Mixed Choir. Ms. Hamilton also holds a Master of Sacred Music degree from Union Theological Seminary, New York City, where she studied choral conducting with Abraham Kaplan.

In addition to her work at St. Peter’s and SPCAA, Ms. Hamilton serves as Colleges Organist at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. At HWS, she plays for Colleges chapel services and produces a monthly organ program called Music, Meditation and Munchies.

Ellen Kogut (Suzuki Violin)
Ellen received her B.A. with First-class Honours in Linguistics from McGill University, Montreal. She is currently studying for a degree in music through Ithaca College. She is training in Suzuki Pedagogy with Susan Waterbury and Sanford Reuning. Ellen has studied violin since she was a young child and has taught children and adults for the last few years. She has enjoyed performing with various Symphony and Orchestral organizations and joined the staff at St. Peter’s Community Arts Academy in the fall term of 2007. Ellen was excited to apply her skills as a violin player and Suzuki teacher in a school setting and hopes to pass on her enthusiasm and love for the violin and Suzuki’s Talent Education philosophy.

Julianna Methven ( Suzuki Violin)
Julianna began Suzuki violin lessons at age two in her hometown of Corning, New York. She was involved with an active Suzuki program as a child and has performed throughout the United States and Canada. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Violin Performance from the University of Oregon, where she was a cum laude student of Fritz Gearhart. While pursuing her Masters Degree in Violin Performance at Ithaca College, she was a teaching assistant to Susan Waterbury and completed her long term training in Suzuki Pedagogy with Sandy Reuning. 

Julianna has held Suzuki violin teaching positions at the University of Oregon and on the faculty of Ithaca Talent Education. She is currently adjunct violin faculty at St. Peter's Community Arts Academy and maintains a private Suzuki violin studio in Syracuse.

Jeanette Nelson (Art Coordinator)
Jeanette Nelson received her Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree from San Jose State University in California in 1972. She continued on to receive her teaching credentials. She has worked in Arts Education for over 25 years teaching and supporting arts in the schools. Before relocating to Geneva from Arizona, she was the Arts Education Coordinator for the City of Sedona and the Sedona School District.

Loraine Schoenfield (Suzuki Violin)
Loraine Messick Schoenfield (Suzuki violin, viola) began studies in her native Detroit at age ten. There she won numerous State and local awards, television performances, as well as National Federation of Music scholarships to The Meadowmount School of Music and Chautauqua Institution, studying with Ivan Galamian and Josef Gingold, then Mischa Mischakoff respectively. By age thirteen she enjoyed a solo career in four states, and has since concertized in orchestras, recitals, and operas across the United States as well as Italy, Germany and Austria. Toward her late teen years, more intensive orchestral training began with Mischa Mischakoff (mentioned in “Journeys of a Concertmaster” by Anne Mischakoff) and both James Levine and Robert Shaw, for whom she was assistant Concertmaster at Detroit Symphony’s Meadowbrook Festival. At age nineteen, while attending Oakland University, Loraine won a core position with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and soon after was chosen to play Mendelssohn’s concerto with the orchestra. Loraine has held teaching positions and private studios in Michigan, Ohio, and New York. She has also directed music lessons programs for disadvantaged and at-risk youth, winning special recognition for this work from the President’s committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1996. Loraine’s present focus and delight is teaching at St. Peter’s and the Kanack School of Music (Suzuki) in Rochester, NY. She continues her Suzuki training at Ithaca College, while maintaining her teaching studios, and designating/crafting clothing for the Rochester Folk Art Guild studio in Middlesex, New York where she resides.

Jennifer Sisbarro (Voice)
Soprano, Jennifer Sisbarro, received her B.A. in Vocal Performance, Summa cum Laude, from SUNY Geneseo and her Masters of Music, Magna cum Laude, in Vocal Performance from Ithaca College. 

 She has toured internationally with the Geneseo Chamber Singers, and performed with the Geneseo Carol Choristers and the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble.  As a choral member, she has been featured as a soloist in many choral pieces as well as major works such as Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and Schubert’s Mass in G.

Jennifer is an active vocalist in the Finger Lakes area and has a diverse background in classical, jazz, musical theater, bluegrass, and popular music.  Along with her classical studies with Pamela Kurau and Patrice Pastore, Jennifer studied vocal jazz with Laurie Robinson Keegan.

In addition to St. Peter’s Community Arts Academy, she teaches voice at the Hochstein School in Canandaigua and is adjunct faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Troy Slocum (Piano)
Troy Slocum is a cum laude graduate of Nazareth College of Rochester with a BM in piano performance. Troy has also pursued graduate studies in piano performance at Syracuse University. Troy is an active recitalist and accompanist in the Rochester/Geneva area. He has performed solo and chamber works in various venues throughout the region and isa versatile pianist, comfortable in several styles of music from cocktail piano to classical. 

Wendra Trowbridge (Community Choirs)
The St. Peter’s Community Choirs have been under the direction of Wendra Trowbridge since 1996. Ms. Trowbridge received her BM and MM in Vocal Performance from Ithaca College School of Music. She has previously taught vocal music in the New York public school system and has conducted honor choirs for Central New York schools.

Her own performances include numerous tours with the Celebrant Singers throughout the United States and fourteen countries. She has also performed in various recitals and operas throughout New York State including Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, NY and Ithaca Opera Association. She has extensive experience with private training of voices at all levels, is currently adjunct voice faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and has previously taught at Ithaca College.

Joyce Stanzel (piano)
Joyce Stanzel is an experienced Music Educator, with a Bachelor of Music degree from Eastman School of Music, and graduate hours from Nazareth College, Eastman, and SUNY at Brockport. Having studied with Don Campbell, author of The Mozart Effect, she founded her company, Visible Sound, which  provides informational seminars which teach ways to enhance health, wellness, and learning through music. Her professional memberships include the National Federation of Music Clubs, National Guild of Piano Teachers, Music Teachers’ National Association, and Rochester Piano Teachers’ Guild. She currently  lives in Webster, and is organist for Bethlehem Lutheran Church.

Jacqueline Wogick, DMA (cello, bass)
is the instructor at the St. Peter’s Arts Academy for cello (low strings). A member of Syracuse Symphony and a faculty member at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Jacqueline has toured nationally and through Western Europe as a chamber and orchestral player and recitalist. She has joined faculties at Marshall University and Salisbury University as cellist and conductor and has performed with such groups as the Center for New Music, The Baroque Ensemble, West Virginia Symphony, Jonathan Pops Orchestra and the Green Oaks Chamber Players. In addition, Jacqueline has enjoyed repeated invitations to perform and teach at summer institutes such as All State, Point Counterpoint, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and The Heartland Suzuki Institute. As music director, she has conducted the Syracuse University Orchestra, the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra and Salisbury Youth Orchestra in Salisbury, Maryland and the Blue Lake International Youth Orchestra. In addition, she balances a successful private studio and a busy ensemble schedule as a freelance musician. Jacqueline has completed graduate work at University of Southern California receiving her Masters from Northern Illinois University and her Doctorate in Cello Performance and pedagogy from The University of Iowa.