Biographies
Ann Churukian,
oboe, earned an A.B. in music from Oberlin College and an M.M. in
oboe performance from Southern Methodist University. She has
performed as an orchestral musician in Texas, Illinois, and Indiana.
Since 1989 she has been a freelance musician in the Hudson Valley
and a frequent performer at the Hudson Valley BachFest. Ann is
also the Assistant Music Librarian at Vassar College.
Joanna Schroer studied clarinet with James Pyne and Fred
Ormand at the University of Michigan, where she performed with the
Wind Ensemble at Alice Tully Hall and played in the LaScala world
premiere of a Karlheinz Stockhausen opera. While a graduate student
at the Ohio State University, she toured and recorded with the
Concert Band in Japan. Joanna currently plays co-principal clarinet
with the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra and maintains a private studio
in New Paltz.
Elisabeth Romano studied bassoon at Julliard Pre-College and received a B.M. and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. She was a member of the Rochester Philharmonic, San Antonio Symphony and Toledo Symphony orchestras and since moving to the Hudson Valley she has freelanced with, among others, the Albany Symphony, Hudson Valley Philharmonic and Jupiter Symphony, and is principal bassoonist with the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. Elisabeth is bassoon instructor for Marist, Vassar and Bard Colleges and Mountain Laurel Waldorf School. At her home studio in Ulster County she teaches all woodwinds and makes custom bassoon reeds for her on-line reed company, Reed Expertise.