The Cline School of Music: Meet Our Faculty

• Full-Time Faculty
• Adjunct Faculty
• Staff

Full-Time Faculty

Dr. Jackie Griffin, Professor, Dean of College of Fine Arts, Chair of the Cline School of Music, has the BM from Furman University, the MM from Converse, and the DMA from the University of South Carolina. Her major areas of study are performance (organ), composition and theory. She has performed many recitals and concerts throughout the region, and is a published composer. Dr. Griffin has served many churches in the Greenville, South Carolina area as organist and worship leader, including Trinity United Methodist Church and First Presbyterian Church. She is a member of ASCAP and Who's Who of American Women, and has served as President of the College Division of the South Carolina Music Educators Association, where she is a member of the Hall of Fame. She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study early music, is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society, and is a visiting evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Music. Dr. Griffin was recently inducted into the South Carolina Music Educator's Hall of Fame.

Dr. Griffin and her husband, Tommy, are the parents of one son, Stephen.

864.977.7081 (O)
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Office: FAC 133
jgriffin@ngu.edu 

Dr. Barry Combs, Director of Choral Activities and Church Music Coordinator, is in his fourteenth year at North Greenville University. He holds a degree in Music Education from Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, a Masters of Music Education degree from the University of Louisville, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Combs has taught music in the Jefferson County Public School system in Kentucky, taught at Southern Seminary, and served as a Minister of Music, both full time and part time, in churches in Kentucky, Illinois, and South Carolina. Dr. Combs is active in the American Choral Directors Association, the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada, the Music Educators National Conference, the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, the Music Educators National Conference, the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference, and a member of the Singing Churchmen of South Carolina. He also adjudicates high school choral festivals and has served as a clinician for workshops in Kentucky, Illinois, and South Carolina.

Dr. Brent Coppenbarger, Clarinetist, is Professor of Music at the Cline School of Music at North Greenville University where he teaches woodwinds and various classes.  He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Clarinet Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music.  He received a Master of Music degree in Performance from the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.  Dr. Coppenbarger's teachers include: Robert Marcellus, Russ Dagon, Clark Brody, Walter Wollwage, Dr. Roger Coppenbarger, Anita Garriott, and Dr. Glenn Bowen.  Dr. Coppenbarger is a published author and composer. His articles have appeared in the Instrumentalist, the NACWAPI Journal, and the Clarinet (magazine of the International Clarinet Association). Dr. Coppenbarger's musical compositions are published by Dorn Publications and Musica Rara.

864.977.7089 (O)
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Office: FAC 121
 bcoppenbarger@ngu.ed

Dr. Christopher A. Davis currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Percussion and Director of Athletic Bands at North Greenville University.  At NGU, Dr. Davis teaches applied percussion, directs the NGU Percussion Ensemble, and directs the NGU Marching Crusaders and the basketball pep band. Dr. Davis holds a Bachelor of Music degree in music performance from Capital University, a Master of Fine Arts degree in percussion performance from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in percussion performance from the University of South Carolina. His teachers have included Eric Paton, Jim Ed Cobbs, Robert Breithaupt, Gary Olmstead, Michael Kingan, and Scott Herring.

Dr. Davis has performed with numerous regional orchestras, which include the Westerville Symphony Orchestra, the Central Ohio Symphony, the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, GAMAC, the Spartanburg Philharmonic, the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, and the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra. He has also had the honor of performing at conferences for the Ohio Music Educators Association (OMEA) and the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA) and has performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) as a soloist in 2011 and as a member of the Capital University Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band, the Glassmen Drum & Bugle Corps, and the IUP Percussion Ensemble. 

In addition to his responsibilities at North Greenville University and his performing career, Dr. Davis also teaches private percussion lessons to all ages and presents clinics and master classes for schools around South Carolina. Dr. Davis is a Yamaha Performing Artist and an endorser for Innovative Percussion mallets and sticks.

864.977.7176 (O)
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Office: M 1
 cdavis@ngu.edu

She is Vice President of the South Carolina National Association of Teachers of Singing and is the coordinator for the Student NATS chapter at NGU.

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Office: FAC 124
 cgreene@ngu.edu

Dr. Marianne Holland, Ph.D. serves as Professor/Coordinator for Music Education at North Greenville University. She teaches Music Methods for Music Education majors, Piano, and other related Music Education courses and serves as the University Supervisor for student teaching and field experiences in Music Education. Her degrees include the B.A. in Music, Limestone College, the Master of Music Education, and Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education, University of South Carolina. Teaching experiece in the public schools includes serving as Choral Director at Dreher and Spring Valley High Schools. Dr. Holland has written and administered many grants from agencies and foundations both in state and nationally. The most recent grant was in 2004 for the "Teddy Bear Concerts" presented for area elementary schools. She has had a number of articles published in professional journals. Dr. Holland has been recognized by a citation for the Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Award in Arts Education, Limestone College, University of South Carolina, and the Lamar Chapman Award, North Greenville University, 2007. Active in professional organization, she has served as President of the South Carolina Music Educators Association, Southern Division President of the Music Educators National Conference, and is a member of the SCMEA Hall of Fame. Dr. Holland has been active in church and community work both in Columbia and Greenville. She has served as a representative of NGU on the Greenville County Pathways to Success Committee, 2009-2012.

Dr. Holland received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the South Carolina Independent Schools and Colleges in Spring, 2009. She studied Music at Christ College, Oxford, England in the summer of 2010.  

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Office: FAC 127
 mholland@ngu.edu

Dr. Grant Lewis, Professor of Music at North Greenville University, earned his Bachelor's degree in Voice Performance at Bob Jones University in May, 1990, and completed his Master's degree in Church Music in May, 1992. During his Master's work at BJU he was awarded the Grace Levinson award, won the NATS Graduate Men's division at the regional level for two consecutive years. In 1996 Dr. Lewis undertook a leave of absence to complete his doctoral work at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, IN. There he completed his DMus degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy in May, 2000. In addition to his major field of study, he also holds doctoral minor degrees in musicology and music technology. Dr. Lewis joined the NGU faculty in August, 2007 where he teaches applied voice, Music Technology, and where he serves as the Director of Music Technology. He frequently performs as a soloist in the Greenville area and has enjoyed both cover and performing roles in Il Trovatore (Verdi), Tosca (Puccini), Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Creation, Bach's St. John Passion, and the Mozart Requiem. His translations of French and Russian poetry have been published in the United States, Europe, and Canada including for programs at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Dr. Lewis' biography appears in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers." He is also an active member in the South Carolina National Association of Teachers of Singing and acts as website administrator for SCNATS, NCNATS, and MD-DC NATS and the Mid-Atlantic NATS region.

Dr. Lewis and his wife Camille have two young sons, Isaac and Gavin and live in Taylors, SC.

Fabio Parrini’s work includes recordings, live broadcasts, solo recitals, master classes, concertos, chamber music, and collaborations with soloists, choirs, orchestras, summer festivals, and opera productions. A Steinway Artist and S.C. Arts Commission Approved Artist, he has released CDs as a soloist and with violinist Eun-Sun Lee, and has received multiple competition prizes, a Fulbright Grant, a Kahn Award, and recording grants from the Metropolitan Arts Council and North Greenville University, where he coordinates the Keyboard Department. He has coached for the Philadelphia International Music Festival and is on the faculty roster of the International Music Academy in Cremona, Italy. He holds degrees from the Conservatory of Padua (Italy) and Boston University, and has studied with Anthony di Bonaventura, Micaela Mingardo, Gyorgy Sandor, Bruno Mezzena, and Adriana Rognoni. For more information please visit www.fabioparrini.com

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Office: FAC 119
 fparrini@ngu.edu
    

Dr. Lilia Stoytcheva is a Professor of Music at North Greenville University. She is a native of Sofia, Bulgaria. She has studied at Bulgarian State Conservatory with Professor Lyuba Encheva. Dr. Stoytcheva received a scholarship for the International Piano Master Classes with Philippe Entremont, in Paris France, in 2002. She has won numerous national and international competitions and has appeared on television performances in Europe and in the USA.  She also has made studio recordings. Dr. Stoytcheva is a recipient of George Soros foundation “Open Society” award, 1992, Sofia, Bulgaria, three “John Simms Award for Outstanding Achievements in Piano”, 1998, 1999, 2001, Iowa, USA, Fellowship for the International Piano Master Classes with Norma Fisher, 2001, London, UK; Scholarship for the International Piano Workshop with Nelita True, 2002, Stavanger, Norway, Grant from the Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, 2008 and NGU, SC for making a solo piano CD, Scholarship for the International Piano Master Classes with Walter Hautzig, 1995, 1996, Rock Hill, USA; two scholarships for the International Piano Master Classes with Rudolf Buchbinder and Victor Merzhanov, 1992, 1993, Zurich, Switzerland, etc. Dr. Stoytcheva has performed at some of the most prestigious concert halls in the USA and abroad, including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 2008, Peace Center, Greenville, SC, 2007, Schuster Center, Dayton, Ohio, 2004, Concert Hall Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1990, Ecole Normal de Musique “Alfred Cortot”, Paris, France, 2002 etc. Dr. Stoytcheva played as a chamber musician as well as a soloist of the Academic Symphonic Orchestra of the Bulgarian State Conservatory and the Jihoceske Chamber Orchestra in 1987 and in 1992. She has also played in the Symphony Orchestra of Biel/Bienne (Switzerland) in 1992. Dr. Stoytcheva was adjudicator for the MTNA Piano Competition at Furman University, Greenville, SC, 2007, National Piano Concerto Competition at Furman University, Greenville, SC, 2006, National Piano Achievement Competition, Loveland, Ohio, 2005, 2006. Dr. Stoytcheva’s biography is included in Marquis "Who’s Who in the World," 2006, 2008 25th Silver Edition, "Who’s Who in America" 60th Diamond Edition, 2006, "Who’s Who of American Women" 25th Silver Edition, 2006 and "Who’s Who in American Education," 2006.

 
864.977.2196 (O)
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Office: FAC 112
 lstoytcheva@ngu.edu

Dr. Darian Washington, director of the Concert Band and Professor of Horn, also coaches NGU’s brass quintet, and teaches brass techniques, conducting, and music theory. He received his doctorate of musical arts from the University of Maryland in College Park, where he studied with Gregory Miller. In addition to performing with the University of Maryland Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, Dr. Washington was an active freelancer in the D.C. metro area, playing horn with Washington Savoyards Light Opera Company and Dominion Brass Ensemble (a non-profit Christian brass group comprised primarily of musicians from area military bands), among others. While at UMD, Darian had the opportunity to perform under and learn directly from conductors such as Michael Votta, Director of the UMD Wind Orchestra and former assistant conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble; James Ross, Director of the UMD Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director for the National Orchestra Institute; Donald Hunsberger and Mark Scatterday, former and current conductors of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, through the Frederick Fennell Memorial Conducting Masterclass; and Tim Foley, former conductor of the President’s Own Marine Band. Darian received his master’s in horn performance from the University of Georgia, where he studied horn with Dr. Jean Martin-Williams and took conducting lessons with F. David Romines. His bachelor’s degree in music education is from Augusta State University. Dr. Washington was formerly an instructor of horn, chamber music and humanities at Augusta State University and adjunct horn instructor at the University of South Carolina-Aiken. During his time in Augusta, he maintained a pre-college and college-level horn studio; many of those students have gone on to pursue music degrees at the Eastman School of Music, University of Georgia, University of Southern California, University of West Virginia, University of South Carolina, and NGU. He has also served as the director of bands at Harlem Middle School in Harlem, GA. Dr. Washington plays with the Hendersonville and Brevard symphonies and Carolina Pops Orchestra, and has performed with the Augusta and Athens symphonies, Augusta Choral Society, and as a soloist with the Augusta State University Choir and Orchestra. He is a member of MENC, the SC Music Educators Association, and International Horn Society.

Dr. Michael Weaver teaches violin, viola, and music history in the Cline School of Music where he also conducts the North Greenville University Orchestra. He holds degrees in Music Education, Performance and Suzuki Pedagogy from East Carolina University and the Florida State University.  He studied violin with Nancy McAllister and Fritz Gearhart, and Suzuki Pedagogy on violin with Joanne Bath and on viola with Betsy Stuenwalker. He studied viola with Fritz Gearhart, Ara Gregorian, Scott Rawls, Hugh Partridge, and Pam Ryan, with additional coaching from Dora Mullins.  He performed during master classes with Karen Tuttle and Donald Weilerstein, among others.  He studied conducting at the Florida State University with Alex Jimenez and James Croft.  Dr. Weaver has performed with the North Carolina Symphony and performs as a section violist with regional symphony orchestras.  His biography appears in Who's Who Among America's Teachers and in Who's Who in America.

864.977.7994 (O)
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Office: FAC 108
 mweaver@ngu.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Tom Burns is a graduate of the University of South Carolina with a degree in Music Education, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Masters in Church Music and holds a Doctorate in Worship Studies from the Webber Institute for Worship Studies. He has served churches as a music minister for over 30 years. He directs the Handbell Ensemble and teaches Contemporary Worship in the Church.

Mrs. Jane Callaham is a graduate of Winthrop College, where she earned a BS Music Education-Choral. Mrs. Callaham has taught for 20 years in Greenville County Schools.  In 2001, Mrs. Callaham came to North Greenville University to assist the music education department.

Lauren Cason, a South Carolina native, is an Adjunct Music Professor at North Greenville University where she accompanies for the choirs and teaches various music classes.  In 2004, Lauren graduated Magna Cum Laude from NGU with a BA in Piano Performance.  She went on to get her Masters in Piano Pedagogy from Belmont University in Nashville, TN.  There she accompanied for the Women's Choir, taught class piano, taught private piano lessons, and was inducted into the Pi Kappa Lambda music honors society.  Lauren accompanies for many choral events across the state such as Baptist All-State and various district honor choirs.  She has played piano for productions with the Greer Children's Theater and South Carolina Children's Theater, and is also happy to be on staff at Piano Central Studios where she has a growing studio of private piano students.  She and her husband Tyler currently reside in Greer, SC and are actively involved in the music ministry at Southside Fellowship.

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Office: FAC 117

Ms. Sonja Coppenbarger,  Bassoonist, is an Adjunct Music Instructor at the Cline School of Music at North Greenville University.  She is a former Principal Bassoonist with the Greenville Symphony, having served in that position for 10 years.  She currently is Principal Bassoon with the Hendersonville Symphony and is a free-lance musician and teacher in the Greenville, South Carolina area.  Mrs. Coppenbarger received a Master of Music degree in Bassoon Performance from the New England Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

Dr. David Cudd is a graduate of NGU, Furman University, and earned a Master of Music Education degree at the University of Southern Mississippi. He received his Ed.D. degree in Educational Leadership from Nova University. At North Greenville University, he teaches Classroom Management for Music Education majors. He has served as a band director, taught Driver's Education, and sponsored the school Yearbook in public schools. He also designs drills for marching bands at the senior high and college/university level.

A South Carolina native, Brian Gencarelli is Principal Double Bass of the GAMAC Chamber Orchestra. He received his Master of Music in Double Bass performance at the University of Georgia where he studied with Milton Masciadri. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of South Carolina where he studied with Samuel Douglas and Tim Easter. He is an active performer with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, The Greater Anderson Musical Arts Consortium, and many other regional orchestras. He has performed with such artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Tony Bennett, Mark O’Connor, and Marvin Hamlisch. Mr. Gencarelli maintains active private double bass studios in Greenville. He is currently the Director of Orchestra at Mauldin Middle and Mauldin High Schools in Greenville, SC and is Professor of Double Bass at North Greenville University.

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Office: M 125

Keith Groover is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, and worship leader who teaches guitar at NGU and also maintains a large private studio. He studied music performance at Indiana University and received a degree in Music Composition and Theory from the University of South Carolina. He was formerly the Praise Band and Orchestra Director for Brushy Creek Baptist Church in Taylors, where he directed three adult praise bands, two youth bands, and a twenty-person orchestra. He has played guitar, bass, and cello in dozens of ensembles ranging from symphony orchestras to rock bands, and is currently the music director for Grace Presbyterian in downtown Spartanburg.

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Office: M 109

Martha L. Hughes is an adjunct Music Education Professor who supervises student teachers. A graduate of Furman University with a B.A. in Music, she earned a Master of Music Education degree at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and a Master of Education degree from Furman University. She has 33 years of teaching in the public schools of South Carolina, where she taught elementary music and gifted and talented education, and directed choirs. She is active in SCMEA, Alpha Delta Kappa, and her church, First Baptist Church of Easley. She has directed children’s choirs, and worked in music camps. She has served on the Alumnae Board of Furman University and on the Board of Trustees at Connie Maxwell Children’s Home. She is participating Furman’s OLLI program and plays in a recorder ensemble.

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Office: M 109 

Martha Kitterman serves as Principal flute with the Asheville Symphony  Orchestra and the GAMAC Chamber Orchestra in Anderson. In recent years she has also performed with the Augusta and Greenville Symphony Orchestras, GAMAC Chamber Orchestra and the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra, and has given numerous recitals in North and South Carolina and Georgia. She is also flutist with the Heritage Woodwind Quintet. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Martha has continued her flute studies over the years with teachers in Cincinnati, Atlanta, and Chapel Hill. Martha maintains a private flute studio at home.

Mr. Craig King has degrees in trumpet performance from Furman University and Yale School of Music. He has performed in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, played with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Johnny Mathis, and with several Broadway touring shows on local stops. Craig is currently a member of the Reedy River Brass Trio, plays frequently with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Spartanburg Philharmonic, and earned a spot on the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra sublist. In his other time, Craig is a portrait artist at White Whale Studios & Gallery. 

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Office: FAC 118

Brenda Leonard teaches cello at North Greenville University and the Lawson Academy of the Arts in Spartanburg. She is principal cello of the Spartanburg Philharmonic and plays with many orchestras in the region.  She performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician, including “Cello Times Two,” a duo with cellist Benjamin Smith of Montreat College.  Dr. Leonard received her DMA in cello performance from the University of South Carolina where she worked with Dr. Robert Jesselson.  Her BA and MM are from Northern Illinois University, where she studied with Raya Garbousova and Marc Johnson, and received coaching from the Vermeer Quartet.  She has taught at Clemson University, Anderson University, Converse College and Frankfurt International School and maintains an busy private studio.

Mrs. Kuo-Pei Cheng-Lin has enjoyed teaching piano and performing for 28 years. Born in Taiwan, she started playing the piano at the age of six and entered classical music school in her seventh grade. She holds a BM in Piano Performance from the National Institute of Arts in Taiwan and two Master’s degrees in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano from The Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Anne Epperson, Sandra Shapiro, Thomas Hecht and Olga Radosavljevich and performed in master classes given by Jerome Lowenthal, Warren Jones, Jean Barr and cellist Denis Brott. She received a full scholarship from the Santa Barbara Summer Music Festival and after graduation was appointed staff accompanist at CIM. In 1995 she moved to Cincinnati where she served as principal pianist for the Middletown Symphony Orchestra and as the music director and pianist for the Cincinnati Chinese Church at Mason. A Greenville resident since 2004, Mrs. Cheng-Lin is currently serving as principal pianist for the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist for the Greenville Chinese Christian Church. Through the years she has continued to perform recitals as a soloist and with musicians from such institutions as the Cincinnati Symphony and Greenville Symphony, as well as faculty members of NGU, Indiana University, Clemson University, and Furman University, among others. She performed Liszt’s Concerto No. 1 with the Foothills Philharmonic at the Peace Center. She is a proud member of the Greenville MTA and of the Crescent Music Club.

Mr. Charlie Parker has a B. A. Degree in Music Education from Newberry College and a Master’s Degree from the University of South Carolina, where he served as an assistant to the Director of Bands. Mr. Parker has done additional course work at North Greenville University, Furman University, Northwestern University, and Vandercook School of Music. Mr. Parker has also served as Director of Bands at J. L. Mann High School, as well as Band Director of Gilbert High School, and Jazz Band Director at Clemson University. He was also director of the South Carolina Jazz Ensemble for twenty . As a performer, Mr. Parker has played as a freelance musician with Henry Mancini, Nancy Wilson, Natalie Cole, Barnum & Bailey Circus, The Greenville Symphony, the Columbia Philharmonic, the Greenville Symphony Jazz Quartet, as well as many others.

Mrs. Kathy Porch is a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College and holds a Masters Degree in Voice Performance. She continues study with teacher Michael Best, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera.

Mrs. Porch has studied and performed extensively worldwide. Professional credits include Columbia Artist Managements world tour of Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes, as soprano soloist; Susanna in Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro with Japan’s Ryukyu Opera Company; its premier of Japan’s Accents on Opera, and as leading lady in the Company's Opera and Oratorio productions throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. She has received numerous awards including Miss Alabama, Talent Recipient in Miss America, two world tours with USO and Miss America.

Her most recent collaboration is with composer Eric Ewazen in the premiere of ‘Of Sea and Stars', a song cycle composed for her with poetry by American poet Richard Weaver. The world premier was showcased with the Alabama Symphony under the baton of maestro Christopher Confessore.  A CD of this work is slated to be recorded with the Prague Chamber Orchestra and released early in 2013. 

She maintains an active private studio as well as recital and concert engagements and lecture concerts. 

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Mr. John Sizemore has performed in recitals, chamber music concerts, orchestra concerts, and has lectured and given master classes throughout the United States, Europe and Mexico. He has held the position of principal tuba in numerous orchestras including the Chicago Civic Orchestra, the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, as well as orchestras in Charlotte, Greensboro and Winston Salem. He has performed under renowned conductors such as Sir George Solti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Daniel Barenboim, Margaret Hillis, Thomas Shippers and Christopher Keene. For six years he served as Artist in Residence for the University System of North Carolina as a member of the Piedmont Brass Quintet. He has also performed extensively as a member of the Midwest Brass Quintet in Chicago, Illinois and the Southwest Brass Quintet in Phoenix, Arizona. He is currently principal tuba in the Asheville Symphony. John Sizemore holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Visit the online Brass Studio of John Sizemore.

After earning a Bachelor of Music degree from Wayne State University, Greg Sundt attended Ohio State University, where he received the Master of Music degree and served as a Graduate Teaching Associate in the Music Performance division. He has been a brass instructor at all levels, including at Hillsdale College, where he taught brass lessons, Brass Methods, and conducted the College brass and wind ensembles. He has lived in the Upstate for six years with his wife, Marcia, and eight children. They are members at North Hills Community Church in Taylors.

Dr. Leslie Taylor Warlick holds performance degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts (BM), the Cleveland Institute of Music (MM), and Florida State University (DM). She has had the pleasure of studying violin with Elaine Richey, David Updegraff, Donald Weilerstein and Gary Kosloski. After teaching at Florida International University and Erskine College, Dr. Warlick is now adjunct professor of violin and viola at North Greenville University and Clemson University. Dr. Warlick was a member of the New World Symphony in Miami and the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra in Naples, FL; with the Trio Chanterelle she toured North Carolina and performed at the State Capitol. She has presented concerts and coached students at Delta State University, the University of Tennessee, and other venues through the Southeast, and has performed for the Keowee Chamber Music Festival. Dr. Warlick lives in Seneca, SC, with her husband David and their children Emma Katherine and Charles Nathaniel.

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Office: FAC 110

Staff

Liz Boehm has been the Administrative Assistant for the Cline School of Music since 2011.   Prior to joining NGU, Liz held various positions at Florence Christian Academy in Florence, Alabama, serving there as either Business Manager, Office Manager, or Secretary for 30 years.  Ms. Boehm attends Calvary Baptist Church in Simpsonville and has a son, Jason, who lives in Simpsonville and a daughter, Jennifer, who lives in Chicago.  When she’s not working, Liz enjoys gardening, shopping, and spending time with her grandchildren Cadence, Selah, and (twins) Bryce and Braydn.