Alumni Notes
Class of 2003
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Name: Stacey Jamison (formerly Stacey Bellott) Year of Graduation: 2003 (December) IM Name: staceybassoon MySpace: www.myspace.com/staceybassoon
After graduation I moved to Michigan where I currently live and teach. I live in Ferndale, about one mile north of Detroit. I am married with three kitties. I work as an elementary music teacher in Walled Lake, MI and absolutely love it. My husband is a high school band director with a championship marching band (something I don't have to be in charge of thank goodness!). I also play in many local theatres on bassoon and other woodwinds. I am a bassoonist in the Pontiac Oakland Symphony Orchestra, which plays four concerts each season. I also teach private lessons on bassoon, flute, and saxophone. After our IC Chamber
Orchestra tour to Ireland, I have become rather obsessed with the whole
"Irish" thing (you don't HAVE to be Irish....). I have become
an Irish dancer and compete regularly in Feis's around the country and
in Canada. I also like to play my Irish flute and whistles from time
to time. I even had my honeymoon in Ireland.... :) I am also the web designer for the studio - it's fun to keep something from Ithaca going in my life! |
Class of 2002
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Year of Graduation: 2002 I've been living and working in MD since after graduation, and I'm currently living in downtown Annapolis. I graduated Ithaca thinking that I wanted to conduct high school band, but life in its funny way steered, then pushed, then SHOVED me into elementary school general music. I never in a million years would have thought I could get musical and personal satisfaction out of an elementary gig, but I just finished my Orff-Schulwerk certification and am the happiest I have ever been! I teach mainly at a small private school outside of Baltimore, and have been assisting in the music department at the Key School in Annapolis, a nationally recognized Orff program. In addition to my music teaching, I teach adult swing dance lessons with Charm City Swing in Baltimore. (www.swingkicksass.com) I host a beginner lesson and dance every monday at a restaurant in downtown Canton, and I help to teach our 8-week class series on Tuesdays. I've competed with my dance partner in several national level swing events around the country and am having a great time taking my dancing to the semi-professional level! I have been married
since 2004 to a fabulous guy -- DJ Vernon. I met him soon after moving
to Maryland and found in him an energetic, fun, smart, and creative
life partner. He is a computer programmer and big time geek, but he
comes from a family of musicians and still remains active in the local
music scene (that has ensured that his social skills remain intact!)
The holidays we spend with his family invariably find us in brother-in-law's
basement recording studio, jamming with aunts, uncles, siblings, and
cousins on guitars, mandolins, egg shakers (that's me) and whatever
else is hanging up on the wall. It is a different kind of musical culture,
but I love that we share this background and he can appreciate what
I do. I made my rockstar singing debut at the Thunderdome with his band,
and we are currently working up a set list so we can do a folk/pop/acoustic
coffeehouse duo together.
Life is busy, as always! Live to the point of tears, carpe diem, dance like no one is looking and love like it's never going to hurt! |
Class of 2001
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Eleanor Conley
Year of Graduation: 2001 After graduating from IC, I spent four and a half years in Merida, Mexico as part of a project to begin an orchestra there. It was a challenging experience to begin something foreign to that part of the world while working with Russian, Cuban, Bulgarian, Columbian, Romanian (you get the idea) musicians, but there also was plenty of time to explore the local beaches, Mayan ruins, and salsa bands. The orchestra now includes many Americans, graduates from NEC, Manhattan and more. Aside from the orchestra I taught bassoon and played with a jazz trio and several woodwind quintets. Having left the orchestra at the end of 2006 to explore further study options, I can recommend working in Latin American orchestras for the adventurous musician.
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Hi
everybody! 
Name:
Colleen MacLean Vernon (formerly Colleen MacLean)
