Class Notes: 1990s
Below are archived updates for Music alumni graduating in the 1990s. Visit the Recent Alumni Updates page for current news.
Margie Marbella, '99 After teaching choir for eight years with Fairfax County Public Schools, I am currently in a central office position as the choral music resource teacher for FCPS. I have two lovely little girls and a rockstar husband, and I am also working on building a massage therapy practice. :) Love to W&M Music. (3/06/12)
Sheyna Burt, '98 I'm in the NOVA/DC area trying to balance running a law firm with having a satisfying amateur musical career .... I work with a stack of nonprofit arts organizations and if any W&M folks land in my part of the world and are looking for opportunities to do some chamber and/or orchestral playing, they should shoot me a message! (10/30/12)
Sarah Balcom, '98 I live in Annapolis, MD with my husband and 3 kitties. I currently teach full time at the University of MD at College Park in the Animal Sciences Department, and practice as a veterinarian in small animal medicine in the summers. This May, my husband and I are expecting our first child. I continue to sing in the area, and once in a while I dust off my clarinet to play a little Klezmer or do some duets with past WM music friends in the area. (3/15/12)
Sarah Glosson, '98 For several years before graduate school, I taught music and conducted the orchestras at a Governor's School for Arts & Tech. Currently I'm working to complete the PhD in American Studies at W&M. As always, I continue to freelance on cello, baroque cello, and viola da gamba. I am also on faculty in the Music Dept. at W&M, teaching viola da gamba. (1/10/12)
Sunni Fass, '97 We're back East again! After a 4-year stint at the new Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix (which is a must-do pilgrimmage for global music lovers), my husband Robert and I shifted gears to pursue his grad-school aspirations. So we're now enjoying the Green Mountains of Vermont....where I was fortunate enough to land a wonderful new gig as the Executive Director of Pentangle Arts Council in Woodstock, Vermont. It's a beautiful town, and I'm excited about managing a program which includes music, visual arts, education, film, and theater, as well as community arts engagement and an historic venue. Vermont is quite a (welcome) change from the desert Southwest and urban sprawl, and we're thoroughly enjoying the change of seasons, the lush landscapes, and quiet village life lived on a much more personal level. Can't wait to settle in! (1/17/12)
Tes Siominski, '96 After finishing my Ph.D. in music at New York University in 2010 and spending a year as a postdoc at Smith College, I have returned to the DC area to be closer to the southern contingent of my biological and chosen family. Here, I'm teaching Irish fiddle lessons, playing gigs, working on my book about music and gender in early twentieth-century Ireland, and doing a host of odd jobs, including editing and assisting other scholars with research. In addition to the things I call work, I'm delighted to have a bit of spare time now to pursue new and old interests: Indian cooking, increasing my knowledge of baroque repertoire and style, learning to play the electric guitar, reading American modernist poetry, and finally making my way through the entire series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (1/25/12)
Jay Chadwick, '93 I am balancing a full time legal career with an active schedule as a freelance French horn player in the Washington, DC and northern Virginia. I perform regularly with three orchestras, a brass quintet, and a wind quintet, and spend a week each summer performing with the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. I live in Reston, VA, with my wife and two kids. (02/11/13)
James Newton, ’93 I have relocated to Seattle and have found a superb choir here. One that reminds me of my days with the W&M choir: the Seattle Choral Company. Coincidentally, and surprisingly, I have discovered a couple other W&M choir alums in this choir as well, Elizabeth Johnson '89 and Trileigh Tucker '77! Given the distance, I find that incredibly heartening. (1/01/09)
Leslie Ann Lunsford Dunn, '90 Leslie Ann Lunsford Dunn is a practicing attorney and an online professor and is still playing French Horn. She plays in the Georgia Philharmonic with her husband Jason (another horn player.) The Georgia Philharmonic will be playing an all Mahler concert on March 17, including Mahler 1. (3/06/12)
