Head shot of Matthew Ryan Kilgore

Matthew Ryan Kilgore

With a diverse percussive background, Kilgore specializes in keyboard percussion, chamber music, steel band, and the marching arts.

Perry Roth

Perry Roth

Perry Roth is on faculty at The College of Wooster, Kent State University’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music, The Hartt School Community Division, […]

Rachel King portrait

Rachel King

King is an adjunct instructor of music, specializing in music education.

Kiirsi Maunula Johnson

Johnson is an avid chamber musician and the co-founder of Conspiratus Brass, regularly performing solos in brass ensembles.

Sean Lawry

Sean Lawry

Lawry is an adjunct instructor of Music, specializing in Scottish drumming.

Peter Mowrey

Peter Mowrey

As a professor of music, Mowry teaches music theory, composition, piano, and electronic music. He is also a chamber and electronic music composer, pianist, and writer.

Palmer Shonk portrait playing bagpipes

Palmer Shonk

As an alumnus and former Scottish Arts Scholarship recipient, Shonk competes as a soloist in Canada, the United States, and Scotland.

Mingyao Zhao

Mingyao Zhao

Recognized internationally, Zhao has performed extensively as a cello soloist and recitalist in China, the United States, Canada, Korea, and Poland.

Thomas Wood

Thomas Wood

A decorated violinist in frequent demand as an adjudicator and clinician, Wood is an expert in chamber music, string methods, and music history and literature. He teaches violin and viola students, coaches small string chamber groups and frequently gives recitals at Wooster.

Greg Slawson

Greg Slawson

A jazz and classically trained pianist and composer, Slawson teaches courses on music technology and jazz improvisation.

Shitong Sigler

Shitong Sigler

A Wooster alumna, Sigler is a versatile pianist whose styles range from Baroque to Contemporary. She has performed internationally and is also a researcher of piano pedagogy and entrepreneurship.

Toni Shreve

Toni Shreve

Melissa Puster head shot

Melissa Puster

Yuka Nakayama Lewicki

Yuka Nakayama-Lewicki

Nakayama-Lewicki is an internationally recognized pianist and chamber musician, performing recitals from her native Japan to Europe and the United States.

James Marron faculty in music at The College of Wooster

James Marron

Marron is a guitarist who has performed throughout the United States and around the world, including in Italy, France, and Germany, and a composer of dance music featured at several festivals.

Jeffrey Lindberg

Jeffrey Lindberg

Known primarily as the co-founder and artistic director of the Chicago Jazz Orchestra and for his work transcribing jazz orchestrations, Lindberg now directs The College’s Orchestra and Jazz Band.

Gunnar Owen Hirthe

Gunnar Owen Hirthe

A clarinet performer who regularly premiers new works by local and internationally acclaimed composers, Hirthe is also a researcher of the world of music inspired by non-Western music traditions.

Tim Freeze portrait

Timothy Freeze

Freeze has published work on composers Gershwin, Copeland, and Mahler. He works with students on interdisciplinary topics in music, such as music and politics and music in 1920s film.