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Jeffery Rondotsky McGhee, baritone, is in his fourth year as assistant professor of voice at Roberts Wesleyan College. He received his doctor of musical arts degree this summer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where his Final DMA Research project was entitled, IN PURSUIT OF CONNECTEDNESS: A Learning Guide for Young Singers and those who Teach them. While at the University of Wisconsin- Madison Jeffery played the roles of Alidoro in La Cenerentola, the poet in Salieri’s First the Music, then the Words, the Baron in La Traviata, the Leader in Lost in the Stars, and El Gallo in The Fantasticks. He received his bachelor of music degree from the University of Southern Mississippi, and his master’s degree from the University of Akron. At Akron, Jeff performed as Sid in Albert Herring, Matt in The Fantasticks, and the poet in Kismet. He was also soloist with the Akron Symphony Chorus in performances of Faure’s Requiem. In a season with Opera for the Young, Jeffery portrayed the role of Belcore in The Elixer of Love. He has also performed the roles of the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, and the Counsel in Trial by Jury with the Ohio Light Opera company. Since joining the music faculty at Roberts, Jeffery has performed several recitals and at many special events. His areas of teaching responsibilities include applied voice, vocal pedagogy, and musical stage performance.
Paul Rosenberg performs on french horn in many circles, having played in American, European and other international orchestras, as well as chamber groups, studio recordings, and opera,also instructing at colleges and workshops. A member of the East Wind Quintet out of Lehigh University,where he is also a professor of horn, Paul freelances in the PA-NJ-DE Tri-State area, while maintaining contracts with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the Reading Symphony Orchestra,
under Andrew Constantine.
Paul will be playing the 3rd Mozart Horn Concerto with the Vox Amadeus Chamber Orchestra at the Kimmel Center this coming January 25th.
Paul was Principal Horn in the Israel Chamber Orchestra under Shlomo Mintz, and also held positions in the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon, Portgual as well as playing Principal in orchestras in Spain and Mexico. Mr. Rosenberg played with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia for seven years, where the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, ” Of particular note were hornists Paul Rosenberg and Richard Swartz, who maintained a solid sound with distinct clarity throughout the concert..”. He was with Opera Festival of New Jersey, and often plays with the Opera Company of Philadelphia.
He is a studio musician with Sigma Sound and Gamble and Huff studios, and has played on recordings with the Chicago Symphony and the Gulbenkian Orchestra as well as live radio broadcasts while in Israel.
Having coached horn at Bryn Mawr/Haverford Colleges, and acting as resident artist at the Sewanee Music Festival, Mr. Rosenberg maintains his own thriving private teaching studio. His own training includes the Civic Orchestra of Chicago under Daniel Barenboim, George Solti and James dePriest, the National Orchestra Institute under David Zinman and Andrew Litton, and advanced private studies with Eyal Vilner of the Jerusalem Symphony, Randy Gardner of the Philadelphia Orchestra and his longtime mentor and teacher, Dale Clevenger, Principal Horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Evelyn Larter was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. She won the prestigious Governor’s Recital Prize for piano, and graduated with honors in concert piano and music education. She performed with the Highlands Sinfonia, and on Scottish television. Since moving to the United States with her husband and family in 1988, Evelyn has been active in the Philadelphia area, performing with well-known soloists and ensembles. She was on the music staff of historic Tenth Presbyterian Church for 11 years, regularly substituting on the organ.
In September 2003, Evelyn became Director of Music at Deerfield Presbyterian Church, South Jersey, where she organizes regular recitals with world class musicians. As a composer, Evelyn writes anthems for her small church choir, and instrumental and vocal solo hymn arrangements for use as preludes and offertories. She has also arranged music for a small brass ensemble at her church. Five of her anthems have been published by the Lorenz Corporation and two by Saint James Music Press. More anthems are currently awaiting publication by Lorenz, St James Music Press, Augsburg Fortress and Abingdon Press. She recently served as Dean of the SouthWest Jersey Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Evelyn has a strong interest in maintaining the goal of excellence in worship music, and has consulted with many churches on issues concerning the introduction of contemporary worship. She enjoys all kinds of music, and teaches many gifted students. She is married to Rev Dr Ken Larter, the minister of Deerfield Presbyterian Church. They have four adult children, and three grandchildren.
Esther Jane Kulp holds a Bachelor and Masters of Applied Music and Voice Performance from the Eastman School of Music. She was awarded the Rotary Foundation International Fellowship for post graduate study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland. She also holds a MAR from Westminster Theological Seminary.
She has a long list of performing credits and has presented in a number of international venues including the Royal Albert Hall in London and Beijing University. In addition to private voice and choral instruction, she has served on the faculty of Shenzen University (People’s Republic of China), Pinebrook Junior College, the American Academy and the Wilberforce School. Miss Kulp also serves as Music Director at Trinity Orthodox Presbyterian Church and interim director at Emmanuel Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
She is Artist in Residence at Emory University and served as visiting artist and lecturer at “Fire on a Mountain”, an annual conference in Queensland, Australia on developing a Christian Worldview.
Daniel Sharp, of Philadelphia, started his musical education at the Settlement Music School at the age of nine. There he studied flute, music theory, and chamber music. Daniel studied flute with Ilya Ovrutsky, formerly of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra and Bolshoi Ballet Theater Orchestra, for ten years while at Settlement. He also studied chamber music with Shirley Curtiss, participating in the Weinstein Woodwind Quintet, an endowed ensemble that helps with the funding of private lessons for each of its members. In May of 2005, the Weinstein Quintet was selected to perform on NPR’s “From the Top” and was aired in September of 2005.
Daniel also was a member of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra from 2003-2005, under the leadership of the celebrated Maestro Joseph Primavera. Youth Orchestra highlights include a 2004 tour of Eastern Europe with performances in Warsaw, Krakow, Buda-Pest, Vienna, Salzburg, and Prague; annual festival concerts in Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center; and a special honorary concert for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. He has also substituted with the Haddonfield Symphony and the Curtis Symphony of The Curtis Institute of Music, working with such renown conductors such as Maestro Rossen Milanov and Maestro Christoph Eschenbach, and performing in halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York City.
This past summer, Daniel performed at the Gubbio Summer Festival in Gubbio (PG), Italy. There, he also participated in a master class given by Andrea Oliva, principal flute of the Symphony Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Ceclia, Rome.
Now Daniel is in his third year of study at Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music, where he studies with Kazuo Tokito, solo piccolo in the Philadelphia Orchestra. Other teachers include Jeffrey Khaner, Andrea Oliva, and Margaret Claudin. While at The Boyer College of Music, Daniel is actively involved with the Temple Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Luis Biava, as well as various chamber ensembles. Daniel also recently won the solo piccolo position with the Symphony in C, formerly Haddonfield Symphony, and is now a full time member of this orchestra, which is directed by Maestro Rossen Milanov.
David Kim, Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1999, David Kim was born in Carbondale, Illinois. He started playing the violin at the age of three, began studies with the famed pedagogue Dorothy DeLay at the age of eight, and later received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School. In 1986 he was the only American violinist to win a prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and in 1990 he was a prize winner at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.
Mr. Kim is founder and artistic director of the Kingston Chamber Music Festival at the University of Rhode Island (founded in 1989). He also holds the position of special guest artist there and in 2001 was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Arts. Mr. Kim devotes a portion of his schedule each year to bringing classical music to children. In conjunction with the Kingston Chamber Music Festival, he founded an annual outreach program that takes him to elementary schools, performing and speaking about classical music in an effort to cultivate future audiences. To date, Mr. Kim has performed for well over 12,000 young people in the State of Rhode Island. He also visits hundreds of children in the Philadelphia area each season and conducts master classes around the United States at schools such at the Manhattan and Yale schools of music as well as the Curtis Institute of Music.
Mr. Kim’s numerous solo engagements around the world have included the orchestras of Dallas, Pittsburgh, Capetown, KBS (Korea), and Moscow; as well as the Buffalo and Seoul philharmonics; the Polish National Radio Orchestra; the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra; and numerous orchestras across North, Central, and South America. Mr. Kim appears as soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra every season. Some of the conductors with whom he has performed as soloist include Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Peter Oundjian, and Wolfgang Sawallisch.
At age 12, Mr. Kim appeared with Itzhak Perlman as the subject of “Prodigy,” a WNEW-TV (New York) production, and has since been featured nationally in specials on the CBS, NBC, and PBS networks. He has also been featured prominently on National Public Radio and in Newsweek magazine. He performs on a J.B. Guadagnini from Milan, Italy, ca. 1757, on permanent loan from The Philadelphia Orchestra. David Kim resides in a suburb of Philadelphia with his wife, Jane, and daughters Natalie and Margaret.
Paul S. Jones has been Organist and Music Director of Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia since 1998. His musical studies began at the age of five in the Toronto and Western Ontario Conservatory programs. He holds graduate degrees in piano and conducting from Indiana University School of Music where, as a doctoral fellow, he studied with esteemed pianist and pedagogue, Menahem Pressler, and was recipient of an Arts Grant in conducting from The Canada Council.
As a pianist, Dr. Jones has collaborated with violinist David Kim, cellist Anne Martindale Williams, duo piano partner Samuel Hsu, and Metropolitan Opera stars Jerome Hines, Sharon Sweet, and Stuart Neill, as well as other artists of renown. He is author of "Singing and Making Music: Issues in Church Music Today" (P&R, 2006), and is a regular church conference speaker and clinician. Dr. Jones is president of Paul Jones Music, Inc., a corporation of composers who write new music for the 21st century church (www.pjonesmusic.us). Jones has composed or arranged more than 80 sacred works including "Hymns for a Modern Reformation" with the late James Montgomery Boice.
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