Reed Anderson has taught Private Viola lessons at the Toledo School for the Arts since 2001. Mr. Anderson has a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees, in Viola Performance, from the University of Michigan and graduated High School at the Interlochen Arts Academy. Currently, Mr. Anderson is a member of the Toledo Symphony, Core Section Viola, teaches private viola lessons at his home in Sylvania, and his wife, Diana Anderson, teaches Beginning and Intermediate Orchestra at the Toledo School for the Arts.

Kim Buehler, who teaches vocal jazz for the University of Toledo, has had the opportunity to study and perform as both a soloist and ensemble singer. She was the teaching assistant to vocal jazz legend Dr. Jon Hendricks, and a featured soloist with his Vocalstra while traveling with him to Paris and also on the QEII. She and other of Dr. Hendricks’ students used their association with him to work in the local group Sixth Edition. Ms. Buehler teaches private and group vocal jazz lessons at the Toledo School for the Arts, and is a member of the school’s Arts Advisory Board.

 Jenn Burns received her Master's Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, both in viola performance. Her main teachers have included Jeffrey Irvine, Mark Jackobs, Masumi Rostad and Rudolf Haken. Jenn has been playing with the Toledo Symphony since 2007 and has also performed with the Tulsa Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, and Champaign-Urbana Symphony. Jenn has also participated in the Kent/Blossom and Round Top music festivals and has performed on a cruise ship with a string quartet for a summer.
Jenn has enjoyed teaching students of all ages with the Suzuki Method and traditional approaches. She received her Suzuki training on violin and viola from a long term program at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Kimberly Meier-Sims. She has also received additional teacher training from Pat D’Ercole, William Preucil, Sr. and Mimi Zweig.

Sandra Clark grew up in San Jose, CA, a product of an outstanding public school music program.  Her parents were encouraging of her love of music and provided piano lessons from an early age.  Sandra attended San Jose State University where she studied with the ever patient Dr. William George, earning a BA in music performance in 1982.  After a two-year stint as an insurance salesperson, phone solicitor and other such jobs, Sandra decided she'd rather play the horn, and so went on to The Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she studied with Lowell Greer, earning a Master of Music in 1987.  
Sandra has been Co-Principal horn of The Toledo Symphony since late 1990.  She’s also a former first prizewinner in The Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition as a member of The Taft Wind Quintet, as well as a finalist in four previous American Horn Competitions (winning the second prize in 1997 and 2001). Sandra has been a guest recitalist in California, Nevada, and New Mexico, as well as on the radio for the WGTE program Live from FM 91.
In 2004 she gathered some friends to record and distribute a CD of music for winds and strings by Alec Wilder.  Suite – Music of Alec Wilder garnered warm reviews – especially from the fans of Wilder’s seldom-recorded music.  The disk is available through Amazon.com

Heidi Clausius began teaching private piano at TSA in the fall of 2007. Enjoying a full time 18 year Real Estate career, she recently made the decision to return to music full time and is currently in her second year of Graduate School as a student in the Collaborative Piano Performance program at Bowling Green State University.  As a collaborative pianist, Mrs. Clausius has had the opportunity to participate in many unique and varied ensembles and duos at BGSU, as well as throughout the community.  In April 2011, she was the first place  Duo Winner  in the Graduate Division of the Dr. Marjorie Conrad 12th Annual Art Song competition.  Previously an adjunct faculty member at Owens Community College, she enjoyed accompanying the choir and private students of the voice faculty. Her passion lies in exploring and enriching the musical experience between herself and others, whether they are audience members, peers, students or other per-formers that she may be teaching, collaborating with or coaching.   She received her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance degree from the University of Toledo where she studied with Frances Renzi and Michael Boyd. She is currently a student of Thomas Rosenkranz and Robert Shannon for her graduate program at BGSU.

 Jo-Anne Nadrasik-Chrysochoos is a Soprano, a native of Toledo, and presently a Fine Arts Music faculty member at Owens Community College. She is also a private voice instructor at Toledo School for the Arts and has been the director of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral choir for 11 years. She brings with her a variety of experiences including choir directorships, teaching at both the high-school and university levels, and performance roles including Carmen, The Barber of Seville, Cosi fan Tutte, La Boheme, Mahler's Song's of a Wayfarer, Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben, and Handel’s Messiah. Most recently, Jo-Anne was heard in the Great Gallery of the Toledo Museum of Art in the recital “La Belle Musique de France" where she performed "Nobles Seigneurs" from Les Huguenots and the Flower Duet from Lakme.
Jo-Anne studied voice at the University of Toledo under Barbara Rondelli-Perry and at Austin Peay Conservatory under Barney Crockerall and holds a Bachelor’s and Master's Degree in Vocal Performance. Jo-Anne is a member of The National Association of Teachers of Singing. Her Holy Trinity Cathedral choir won first place in the MEFGOX choir competition and she is a University of Toledo Concerto Competition winner, performing Gustav Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer and a music festival concert winner, performing for composers Ned Rorem and Donald Erb.

Norman Damschroder is the Assistant Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Toledo. He joined the faculty of UT as instructor of double bass and jazz history in 1997. He holds a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Emphasis) from University of Toledo and a Master of Music Performance from Bowling Green State University. His major teachers have been Mark Bernat, Tom Knific, Derek Weller, and Jeff Halsey. As an active freelance bassist in the Toledo area, Damschroder has performed with jazz artists Rosemary Clooney, Stanley Cowell, David Hazeltine, Barry Harris, Jon Hendricks, Ernie Krivda, Hod O’brien, Tim Ries, Terrell Stafford, John Swana, Steve Turre; pop artists Patty Austin, Micheal Feinstein, Maureen McGovern, Sandy Patty, Debbie Reynolds, Neil Sedaka and others, As a classically trained bassist he has appeared in over 100 concerts with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and is currently a member of the Toledo Symphony Jazz Trio which performs regularly in concert and clinic programs throughout Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. His duties at University of Toledo include teaching Applied Double Bass, Jazz History, Theory and Ear Training, Low String Methods, Jazz Improvisation and Jazz Combos. In addition to his duties at UT, Damschroder serves on the faculties of the University of Findlay and Ohio Northern University. He has also served on the faculties of Bowling Green State University and Bluffton College.

Renee Goubeaux is cellist with Toledo Symphony.  In the summers she performs in Yellowstone  Park with the Lake String Quartet.  She also teaches many young cellists through the Toledo Symphony School of Music and the Toledo Community Lessons program.
Renee is a Columbus native and began playing cello in a public school strings program.  She went on to earn performance degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Western Michigan University.   
Renee has been a young artist at the Scotia Festival in Halifax, a semi-finalist at the Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition, and principal cello at the National Orchestral Institute.  Her European performances include recitals in Poland with the Medea String Quartet and concerts with Opera Theatre of Lucca Festival Orchestra and as part of the World Expo in Lisbon, Portugal.  She lives in Toledo with her husband, Robert.

Micah Graber is a bass vocalist currently living in Toledo. He holds a bachelor degree in voice/opera from BGSU and an Artist Diploma in voice/opera from the College Conservatory of Music at the Univ. of Cincinnati.  Micah has performed all over the world. He currently teaches voice at Ohio Northern University. 

 Aaron Keaster, double bass, has been a member of the Toledo Symphony since 1996. He also teaches at Adrian College in Michigan and teaches private music lessons in the Toledo area. Aaron has performed with the Michigan Opera Theatre, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Wichita Symphony, Evansville Philharmonic, and Wichita Jazz Orchestra. Two of his favorite experiences have been playing bass on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean and performing with Mickey, Minnie and Donald at Disney's Epcot Center. Aaron received a Bachelor of Music Education from Wichita State University in 1993, and a Master of Music in Double Bass Performance from Indiana University in 1996. He is originally from Columbia, Missouri, and attended Central Missouri State University where he met his wife Michelle, a flutist. They have a sweet, fun two and a half year old daughter named Kaelee who keeps them moving. The family enjoys going to the zoo, attending baseball games, and eating ice cream.

Ron Kischuk is the Detroit area’s most prominent trombonist.  He has been a featured soloist with The Detroit Symphony Orchestra on numerous occasions and has performed with the orchestra many times as principal or assistant principal trombonist.  His Masters of Music Big Band has recently backed up Johnny Mathis, Hal Linden, The Temptations, Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight and Regis Philbin.  Ron has released 11 CDs as leader; The Tartarsauce Traditional Jazz Band, The Masters Of Music Big Band, a live recording at The Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church with fellow trombonist Ed Gooch, and a 6 trombone & rhythm CD The Masters Of Music Trombones entitled J.J. featuring trombonists from Detroit as well as from the bands of Count Basie & Woody Herman.  His two most recent releases are The Best Of Judie Cochill and Detroit Jam.  In July his Masters Of Music Big Band recorded a new disc of the arrangements of Russ Miller to be released in July 2012.  Additionally, Ron has recorded with Aretha Franklin, Vickie Winans, Tim Bowman, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Grand Funk Railroad, The Emerald Sinfonietta, Paul Finazzo, Bobby Murray, Stewart Francke, Karen Newman, Alto Reed, The Birmingham Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra, and is lead trombone on the Grammy winning soundtrack and film Standing In The Shadows Of Motown.  He recently performed as lead trombonist for the Les Brown Orchestra in a new PBS special aired in Detroit in July and being released nationally in December.  Ron also recorded with jazz saxophonist Randy Scott for a CD just released in September for Sony Records, and an upcoming new gospel CD with Tim Bowman Jr.
Ron is on the adjunct faculty of Wayne State University teaching both classical and jazz trombone and jazz trumpet.  He is a Yamaha clinician and performing artist, the leader of the Masters Of Music Big Band, the Tartarsauce Traditional Jazz Band, artistic director of the Toledo Jazz Orchestra and is the owner of Brassworks Entertainment in Detroit and The Masters Of Music Conservatory in Royal Oak.  Ron was previously on the faculty of Oakland University where he taught Jazz Ensembles, Jazz Improvisation, Classical & Jazz Trombone, all Low Brass private instruction, The Business of Music and the Brass Methods Class to future school music teachers.  His students have enjoyed unparalleled success, with over 90% of them going to college on music scholarships.  His former students’ individual accomplishments include touring and recording with the classical cellist Yo Yo Ma, touring and recording with Bob Seger, and have been trombone instructors at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. His students have composed and orchestrated film scores and record arrangements in Los Angeles, performed with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Michigan Opera Theatre, and released their own recordings of brass quintets, horn sections, jump swing music and much more.  Ron owned and operated Percussion World in Ferndale for 20 years.  He holds a BBA degree from Wayne State University in finance and business economics.

 Residing in Columbus, Ohio, Brian Lang is a dynamic and creative soloist performing in multiple genres. He is a saxophonist and multiple woodwind specialist as well as band leader, composer, and arranger. From 2007-2010, Brian was a full time featured orchestra member with Royal Caribbean Cruiselines, touring Europe, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean. He has performed with the Harry James Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra as well as Bowzer from "Sha na na", and the 80's rock band "Nelson". In 2011, he was named a member of the JECO (Jazz Education Connection of Ohio) Intercollegiate Jazz Ensemble and was given the outstanding soloist award at the 2011 Notre Dame Jazz Festival. As a classical musician, Brian was named the winner of the 2004 Concerto Competition at Marshall University. As a composer and Arranger, Brian has written for ensembles as small as a trio up to full orchestra.

Brian Lang is currently on faculty at Terra Community College in Fremont, Ohio where he teaches saxophone, jazz and contemporary improvisation, and performs with the faculty jazz combo and faculty woodwind quintet. He also teaches a student jazz combo as well as the new jazz appreciation course.


B.A. Music Education, Marshall University, 2007 (magna cum laude).

M.M. Jazz Performance, Bowling Green State University, 2011.

 Nancy Lendrim is Principal Harpist of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, where she holds the Lois Nitschke Harp Chair. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Nancy was a student of renowned harpist Alice Chalifoux. Her studies included twelve summers with Chalifoux at the Salzedo School in Camden, Maine. A native of Williamsburg, Virginia, Nancy has participated in several summer music festivals, including those in Breckenridge and Evergreen, Colorado; Madison, Wisconsin; Bar Harbor, Maine and Graz, Austria. She has appeared frequently as a soloist with the Toledo Symphony on their Classics, Chamber, Mainly Mozart and Neighborhood Concert series. She has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Detroit Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Nancy has appeared as a performer, presenter and clinician at regional, national and international harp conferences. She is Instructor of Harp at the University of Toledo, is on the faculty of Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio, the Saratoga Harp Colony & Festival in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the Toledo School for the Arts. She was formerly on the faculty of the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. In 1997, she founded Northwest Ohio Harp Week, and continues to serve as Co-Director of this music camp for area harpists. She has been an adjudicator for harp competitions in Ohio, Georgia and New York. Nancy is also Director and Coach of the University of Toledo Harp Ensemble. She plays a Lyon & Healy Style 26 concert grand harp.

Offstage, Nancy maintains an active roster of private students, is President of the Northwest Ohio Chapter of the American Harp Society, and is a regular contributor and reviewer for The Harp Column magazine. She lives in Sylvania, Ohio with husband Roger Greive and sons Elliot and Oliver.

Since 2001, Lesli McCage has been a free-lance musician and instructor of clarinet in the Toledo area. In addition to performing with various local orchestras, she holds teaching positions at the University of Toledo and Toledo School for the Arts.
Lesli McCage Simmons was born in Memphis Tennessee. Her family moved to Birmingham, Alabama where she finished high school and continued her music studies at the Universities of Montevallo and Alabama. She began her music career in Birmingham, Alabama, where she met her husband, trombonist Garth Simmons. They reside in Toledo with their daughter.

Nelson Overton II is a graduate of Toledo School for the Arts. Currently he attends The University of Toledo pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz Performance. He is the drummer at The River of Life Church in Toledo and can also be seen playing at various venues around town and the surrounding areas. In addition to giving private percussion instruction at TSA, Nelson rehearses the Glass City Steel Jr. steel drum band.

 Randy Sobel has been playing guitar since he was 13, and has been teaching guitar, bass, and mandolin for over 20 years. Randy has played in numerous local bands including Equinox, Jump Start, The Rize Band, and East River Drive. He teaches private lessons at Valley Music in Maumee where he does instrument repairs and sales. His current band, East River Drive, frequently plays at charity benefits. Recently, Randy performed on the Mitch Albom radio show. His students all agree that his wit and humor make his class fun and meaningful.

Joel Tse joined The Toledo Symphony in 1998 as principal flute, after three years in that position with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL. He has performed as guest Principal Flute with the English Chamber Orchestra, and held positions in the Erie Philharmonic, and the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. Joel has made chamber music appearances throughout Europe, Russia, South America, Greece, Turkey and Israel.
His family came to the United States from Hong Kong when he was a child, and he grew up in Phoenix, AZ. Joel received a Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, a Master’s degree from Northwestern University, and a Performance Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London. His teachers include Bonita Boyd, Walfrid Kujula, Jeffrey Khaner and William Bennett and his recordings include the New World Symphony, American-Soviet Youth Orchestra, and the Eastman Philharmonia and Wind Ensemble. Joel plays on a French flute made by Louis Lot, #2770, circa 1880. This past summer, Joel performed with the Pacific Music Festival’s 10th year anniversary orchestra at the invitation of Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor. Recently, he received a grant from the Mellon Foundation to present local recitals that demonstrate the influence of the French flute on the modern instrument.
Away from the flute, he enjoys cooking, tennis, and making pottery.