Guest Artists

Abigayle Williams, soprano, is a recent alumna of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Mary Schiller. With the CIM Opera Theater, she recorded and filmed the role of Belinda for a movie production of Dido and Aeneas, which premiered March 18, 2022.

Thomas Lempner (saxophone) earned a Masters of Music degree at Kent State University (Summa Cum Laude), a double Bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy and Music Performance at the Conservatory of Music, Baldwin-Wallace College and a diploma from the Armed Forces School of Music. Thomas currently serves on the music faculty at Cleveland State University and Notre Dame College. He is a Trustee for the Medina County Arts Council.

Cooper Wood (b. 1999) is a graduate student at The Ohio State University studying composition with Vera Stanojevic, Thomas Wells, and formerly, Jan Radzynski. Prior to graduating high school, he studied composition and theory with Matthew Saunders at Lakeland Community College.

Nataliya Pshenychna was born in her beloved hometown Kyiv, Ukraine, to a family of professional musicians. It started with her grandmother who had a passion and talent for music, was self-taught on so many musical instruments, and a Holodomor and World War II survivor. She was determined to give her two daughters the best education to become professional musicians.