Music Alumni Hall of Fame
Roberta Guaspari - RFA 1966
Roberta inspired the movie "Music of the Heart" starring Meryl Streep.
Thomas Lloyd - RFA 1970
Associate Professor of Music
Director of the Choral and Vocal Studies Program for Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges
Director of the Choral and Vocal Studies Program for Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges
Anthony Elliott - RFA 1966
Anthony Elliott enjoys a multi-faceted career as a conductor, cellist, and teacher. He has conducted for symphony, opera and ballet, including sharing podium duties with Christoph Eschenbach at the Texas Music Festival, and with Leonard Slatkin at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival. Recent performances include an acclaimed concert of the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, described by the New York Times as “first rate in every way”. He has conducted the San Antonio Symphony, the Scott Joplin Chamber Orchestra, the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, the CAMMAC Orchestra, Vancouver Chamber Players, the Prince George’s Philharmonic, the Plymouth Symphony, the All Northwest Orchestra, numerous all state orchestras, in Holland, Germany, and Austria, and at the Marrowstone and Guelph Spring Festivals.
The first Grand Prize winner of the Emmanuel Feuermann Memorial International Cello Solo Competition, Anthony Elliott has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, and the CBC Toronto Orchestra. A number of his CD recordings are available at www.cdbaby.com, and his recent recording of the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Variations is available from Block M Records at ITunes. His recent performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto with the Ashland Symphony Orchestra was hailed as “sterling” by the Ashland Times. He has appeared at major festivals including Sitka Summer Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Texas Music Festival, Musicorda, New York’s Bargemusic Series, Chamber Music International of Dallas, Houston’s DaCamera Series, the Victoria International Festival, and the Gateways Festival.
Cello students of Anthony Elliott hold prominent positions in major symphony orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, as well as the Chiara, Pacifica, Anderson, Jupiter, Degas, and DaPonte String Quartets. Many have won important competitions and awards, including the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He has given master classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Indiana University, Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, Meadowmount School, and Interlochen Arts Academy. Anthony Elliott is a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan School of Music,.
The first Grand Prize winner of the Emmanuel Feuermann Memorial International Cello Solo Competition, Anthony Elliott has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, and the CBC Toronto Orchestra. A number of his CD recordings are available at www.cdbaby.com, and his recent recording of the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Variations is available from Block M Records at ITunes. His recent performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto with the Ashland Symphony Orchestra was hailed as “sterling” by the Ashland Times. He has appeared at major festivals including Sitka Summer Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Texas Music Festival, Musicorda, New York’s Bargemusic Series, Chamber Music International of Dallas, Houston’s DaCamera Series, the Victoria International Festival, and the Gateways Festival.
Cello students of Anthony Elliott hold prominent positions in major symphony orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, as well as the Chiara, Pacifica, Anderson, Jupiter, Degas, and DaPonte String Quartets. Many have won important competitions and awards, including the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He has given master classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Indiana University, Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, Meadowmount School, and Interlochen Arts Academy. Anthony Elliott is a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan School of Music,.
Frank Briggs
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“The President’s Own” United States Marine Band
Founded in 1798 by an Act of Congress, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band is America’s oldest continuously active professional musical organization. Today, “The President’s Own” is celebrated for its role at the White House and its dynamic public performances. “The President’s Own” encompasses the United States Marine Band, Marine Chamber Orchestra, and Marine Chamber Ensembles, and performs regularly at the White House and for more than 500 public performances across the nation each year.
Christian Ferrari - RFA 1986
Trumpeter/cornetist Master Sergeant Christian Ferrari joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in September 1993. MSgt Ferrari began his musical instruction at age 11. After graduating in 1986 from Rome Free Academy in Rome, N.Y., he earned a bachelor’s degree with performance honors in music education from Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y., and a master’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He studied trumpet with Roger Voisin at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Mass., Charles Schlueter of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Daniel Sapochetti of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.t
Audrey Cupples - RFA 1982
Saxophonist Master Sergeant Audrey Cupples joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in May 1988. MSgt Cupples began her musical instruction at age 7. Upon graduating from Rome Free Academy in 1982, she attended the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y., where she won a performer’s certificate and earned a bachelor’s degree in music in 1986. She earned a master’s degree in music in 2000 and a doctor of musical arts degree in 2008 from the University of Maryland in College Park. Her instructors include Eugene Rousseau of Indiana University , Ramon Ricker of Rochester, and James Stoltie of Potsdam, N.Y. Prior to joining “The President’s Own,” MSgt Cupples performed as lead saxophonist on Wynton Marsalis’ GRAMMY nominated Carnival album.
