Associate Professor of Music & Department Co-chair

Areas of Expertise
Instrumental Music, Conducting, Orchestration and Arranging

Education
D.M.A, Arizona State University

Andrew D. Pease serves as Associate Professor of Music and Director of Instrumental Music at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, where he directs the Wind Ensemble and Brass Ensemble and teaches conducting, orchestration, and composition. At Hartwick, he spearheaded the creation of the pathbreaking album, Stravinsky: Alone No More, with the Hartwick Faculty Wind Octet, released by Mark Masters. Beyond Hartwick, he is co-conductor of the Catskill Valley Wind Ensemble, a community band also based in Oneonta, and co-conductor of the professional Oneonta Community Concert Band. His guest conducting work has spanned elementary through professional groups, and has taken him to several states and the United Kingdom, including two appearances at Carnegie Hall with bands from Hartwick College and Columbia University. He completed his DMA degree in wind conducting at Arizona State University, studying with Gary Hill, Wayne Bailey, and William Reber. His work there earned him the 2017 American Prize in Wind Band Conducting at the collegiate level.

Associate Professor of Music Education & Department Co-chair

Areas of Expertise
Music education

Education
Ph.D., The University of Southern Mississippi

Meghan K. Sheehy (she/her) received her B.M.Ed., M.M. in Music Education, and Ph.D. in Music Education from The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. She is currently serving as Music Department co-chair and Associate Professor of Music Education at Hartwick College where she also acts as Director of the Music Education program, supervises student teacher candidates, teaches subject-area courses required for the B.S. in Music Education degree, and advises Hartwick’s National Association for Music Education collegiate chapter. As a K-12 educator prior to her time at Hartwick, Dr. Sheehy served as high school Director of Bands, assistant band director, middle school band director, elementary general music teacher, and high school choir director.

Assistant Professor of Music

Areas of Expertise
Music Theory, Flute, Flute Choir

Education
D.M.A., University of Arizona

Dr. Ana Laura González serves as assistant professor in the Music Theory Department and artist in residence of Flute at Hartwick College since 2011. She is a native of Argentina and her repertoire spans from classical to contemporary music, with an emphasis on academic music from her home land. Her dissertation “European Cosmopolitanism to Folkloricism” analyzed elements of nationalistic language in earlier Argentinean academic music to the pure expression of traditional elements in flute music by Amancio Alcorta, Alberto Williams, and Angel Lasala. She has also been published in the Flutist Quarterly.

Artist in Residence

Areas of Expertise
Bassoon

Education
M.M., Manhattan School of Music

Daniel Hane is a bassoonist with the Tri-Cities Opera Orchestra, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, and the Catskill Symphony, and performs frequently with the Binghamton Philharmonic, Symphoria, Hartford Symphony, Albany Symphony, and Glimmerglass Festival. Mr. Hane teaches at Colgate University, Cornell University, and Hartwick College. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Georgia Southern University and a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music.

Lecturer in Music & Artist in Residence

Areas of Expertise
Upright Bass, Electric Bass, Jazz Combo

Education
M.A., City University of New York, Queens College

Evan Jagels is a versatile upright and electric bassist. He has shared the stage with such luminaries as Ray Vega, Gerry Weldon, Stacy Dillard, Antonio Hart, Michael Mossman, Ray Anderson, John Stowell, Chuck Lamb, and four-time Grammy-Award winning cellist Eugene Friesen. Other performance highlights include Carnegie Hall, Flushing Town Hall, the Plaza Hotel, the Record Archive, the Blue Note in Germany and the UniJazz Festival in the Czech Republic. He has recorded with Arlen Roth (Ry Cooder, Levon Helm, John Prine), Martin Bisi (Swans, Sonic Youth, Herbie Hancock), Blake Fleming (The Mars Volta, Laddio Bolocko), and for Antonio DeVivo’s Vientos de Madera.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music

Areas of Expertise
Voice, Vocal Methods, Opera/Musical Theater Scenes

Education
Diploma, The Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music, Milan, Italy

Tenor Steven Nanni, “a world class tenor who has natural musicality, artistic instinct and vocal talent, sang the role of Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir D’amore beautifully” (Irish Times) … “A particularly strong performance … Nanni sang beautifully” (Boston Globe). “Among Steven’s many talents are his natural musical instincts. He is a singer from the old school of bel canto and expressive line; a complete musical instrument and artist” –Nico Castel (Metropolitan Opera diction coach, Juilliard School professor).

Lecturer in Music & Artist in Residence

Areas of Expertise
Piano, Keyboard Methods, Class Piano

Education
B.S., Hartwick College

Fideliz Campbell is an adjunct professor teaching Aural Skills and Keyboard Techniques at Hartwick College since 2013. She is artist in residence in piano and serves as accompanist for students in vocal and instrumental for convocation, jury and recitals. She is originally from the Philippines and migrated to the United States in 1993. She recently got her citizenship and proud to share her culture and heritage that is rich in folk music, ethnic music and instruments. Her Thesis focuses on integrating Kulintang Ensemble (similar to Gamelan of Indonesia) into the American public schools. She spent time with select students of Schenevus Central School learning how to play the kulintang and other indigenous instruments. The response was well received by the students and teachers who welcome the idea of diversified music instructions that includes the eastern cultures.

Lecturer in Music & Artist in Residence

Areas of Expertise
Trumpet

Education
M.M., Yale University

Ben Aldridge holds both Bachelors and Masters degrees from Yale University, and has been a member of the Binghamton Philharmonic since 1991. Ben is also a member of the Utica and Catskill Symphonies, as well as the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic and the Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra. He also performs with and arranges for the Catskill Brass Quintet.

Lecturer in Music & Artist in Residence

Areas of Expertise
Electric Guitar, Jazz, Pop music, Rock Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble

Education
B.M., SUNY Purchase Jazz Conservatory

Wyatt Ambrose is a guitarist, composer, and educator based in Oneonta NY. Though he identifies primarily as an improviser and Jazz musician, Wyatt approaches his work with an open heart and mind to all forms of great music. Ambrose maintains a busy schedule as a bandleader and has performed as a sideman with a variety of venerated regional and national artists including Keith Pray, Ray Vega, Tarik Shah (Betty Carter), Joe Barna, Kimberly Hawkey, Jeff Siegel (Sir Rolanda Hanna), and Eric Finland (Eric Krasno, Stanton Moore). He has appeared at venues such as The Bitter End and Rockland Music Hall.

Instructor

Dan Buttermann has served as Hartwick College’s clarinet studio instructor since 2021. Buttermann graduated from the University of Arizona School of Music in 2006 with a Bachelor of Music in Clarinet Performance, and was a 2006 winner of the young artist competition for the Catalina Chamber Orchestra. Buttermann has also performed jointly with pianists Blas Gonzalez, Ya-Ting Liou and flutist Ana Laura Gonzalez at the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Lecturer in Music & Artist in Residence

Areas of Expertise
Voice

Education
M.M., Indiana University

Ms. Donaldson has toured with Theodore Bikel in Fiddler on the Roof. Other national tours include Me and My Girl and in Ken Hill’s Phantom of the Opera, where she appeared as Carlotta the Spanish Diva.

Regionally, Ms. Donaldson has appeared as Trina in the critically acclaimed Blackfriars production of Falsettos, and the Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods in Rochester, and as Woman #2 in Butterfinger’s Angel at Syracuse Stage with Ron Pallilo.

Instructor

Amy Selig is excited to work with Hartwick College as Private Cello Teacher, having been thrilled with the music department and its supportive environment, as well as the music education students she has worked with studying cello there.

While Amy grew up playing the violin, it was Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C-Major that she fell in love with in high school, and which was specifically what made her switch her major from biochemistry, and decide to pursue and complete a B.A. in Music at SUNY Stony Brook. An unusually versatile musician, Amy has been teaching and performing on violin, viola, and cello ever since. She regularly performs on cello as an orchestral, chamber, and solo musician.

Instructor

Areas of Expertise
Saxophone, Music Education

Daniel Sclafani is a saxophonist and educator with a special interest in contemporary solo and chamber music. This interest has been focused on performing and recording lesser-known contemporary and avant-garde compositions for solo saxophone. Daniel holds a Masters in Saxophone Performance from Rutgers University where he studied with Paul Cohen. He received his B.M. in Music Education with Performance Honors from Syracuse University where he studied with Ronald Caravan.

Lecturer in Music

Bio coming soon!

Timothy Horne has been involved in musical activities in the Oneonta area since 1984. He has been a staff accompanist at Hartwick College since the late 1980’s, accompanying at various times the College Choir, Chamber Choir, Women’s Choir, Opera Scenes, student and departmental recitals, convocations, and juries.