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Administration
Seth Brenzel, Executive Director,
has been associated with The Walden School for more than 20 years. He
was a student at Walden for six summers, and since 1994, has served the
School as a staff member, faculty member, Director of Operations, and
from 1996-2003 as the School’s Associate Director. In 2003, he succeeded
Patricia Plude as Walden’s Executive Director. He has served on
the boards of The Walden School, Swarthmore College, and Earplay, a San
Francisco-based new music ensemble. He currently serves as Past-President
of the Swarthmore College Alumni Association. Seth has also served on
the Development Council for the Haas School of Business, University of
California, Berkeley.
Seth received his B.A., with degrees in Music and Political Science, from
Swarthmore College, and received an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business,
University of California, Berkeley. His past employers have included Deloitte
& Touche, the San Francisco Symphony, and Visual Sciences. He sings
tenor with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, with which he has sung since
1995. When not in New Hampshire, Seth lives in San Francisco.
Brad Evans, Office Manager,
helps keep the office running smoothly, and has been apart of the Walden
community since attending Walden’s Teacher Training Institute in
August of 2006. In addition to his duties at Walden, Brad also enjoys
working for the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and Operations
Department. Aside from his work in these two organizations he is an active
member in, and advocate for, The American Partnership for Eosinophilic
Disorders. Before moving to San Francisco in 2006, he earned a trombone
performance degree from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.
While studying music at IU, he also spent three years in various administrative
music education positions.
Malcolm Gaines, Database Manager, administers
The Walden School's growing database and helps coordinate recruitment
and development projects. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology
from the California School of Professional Psychology-Alameda, and received
his B.A. in psychology and religion from the College of William and Mary
in Virginia. He maintains a psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco
Bay area, and is the Director of Intern Training at the San Francisco
Child Abuse Prevention Center. Since 1996, he has been an active member
of the Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Malcolm's association
with The Walden School began in 1997. He lives in San Francisco and enjoys
singing, cooking, and traveling.
Esther Landau, Director of Development, coordinates fundraising
and development efforts for The Walden School. Prior to her arrival at
Walden, Esther was the Managing Director for Citywinds, a critically acclaimed
new music wind quintet which commissioned and premiered more than 100
new works for winds. Esther received her B.M. in Flute Performance from
the Oberlin Conservatory and her M.M. from the San Francisco Conservatory.
She is a passionate advocate for new music, and has had the privilege
of working directly with such composers as Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter,
and Chen Yi. With more than two decades of teaching under her belt, Esther
currently teaches flute lessons privately and through the San Francisco
Conservatory's Preparatory Division. Esther enjoys folk dancing and is
the president of her local International Folkdance club. Esther lives
in San Francisco with her partner Caroline Pincus and their expressive
daughter Ruby.
Tom Lopez, Director, Computer Music Program,
teaches at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, where he holds the
title of Associate Professor of Computer Music and Digital Arts. Tom has
received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland
Fund, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Knight Foundation, the Disney
Foundation, Meet the Composer, ASCAP, and a Fulbright Fellowship as composer-in-residence
at the Centre International de Recherche Musical in Nice, France. He has
appeared at festivals and conferences around the world as a guest lecturer
and composer. Tom is on the board of directors of the Living Music Foundation,
has served on the executive committee of SCI (Society of Composers, Inc.),
and was president of the Texas Computer Musicians Network. He has been
a resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Copland House,
Villa Montalvo, and Djerassi. His compositions have received critical
acclaim and peer recognition, including a Grant for Young Composers from
ASCAP and CD releases by Vox Novus, SCI, and SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic
Music in the United States). His music has been performed around the world
and throughout the United States, including at The Kennedy Center.
Caroline Mallonée, Assistant Academic
Dean, and Director, Composers Forums, has been on the faculty of
The Walden School for ten summers. Carrie has written vocal, instrumental,
electroacoustic, microtonal and computer music that has been performed
in the United States, Mexico, Italy, England, Wales and the Netherlands.
She has also written two operas and music for film. She has recently been
in residence at the MacDowell Colony and at the Atlantic Center for the
Arts. Carrie holds degrees from Harvard University, The Yale School of
Music and Duke University, and she was a Fulbright scholar to the Netherlands
in 2004.
Carrie is active as a violinist: she is a member of pulsoptional,
a sextet and composers’ collective based in Durham, NC, whose first
album was released in April. She is also a founding member of Glissando
bin Laden and his Musichideen, a quartet based in New York City that performs
improvised electroacoustic microtonal music.
Molly Pindell, Director of Operations, has been associated
with Walden for 10 years. She has served in a variety of capacities: as
a staff member and administrative assistant, as Director of Operations
for 7 summers, and most recently as a member of Walden’s Board of
Directors. A native of the Monadnock region, Molly spent the last two
years in Boulder, CO, where she worked at Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy
making cheese and playing surrogate mother to approximately 100 goat kids.
In June Molly moved to Stowe, VT, where she plans to start a goat dairy
of her own. Molly also writes about food and farming professionally; her
recent publications have appeared in 5280 magazine, Boulder
Weekly, Colby magazine, and Delicious Living. A
professionally-trained chef, Molly holds an M.S. in Agriculture, Food,
and Environment from Tufts University and a B.A. in International Studies
from Colby College.
Patricia Plude, Director, Teacher Training Institute,
is honored to have been a member of The Walden School community for 30
years. Serving in roles that have ranged from “junior faculty”
to Executive Director, Pat is honored to direct The Walden School Teacher
Training Institute, through which the school’s innovative and proven
methods are being made available to a broader community of music educators.
Pat holds advanced degrees in piano performance from The
Peabody Institute and the San Francisco Conservatory and has dedicated
her career to promoting and performing new music, as well as teaching
musicianship and improvisation. In addition to having performed with a
number of San Francisco Bay Area new music ensembles, Pat is a former
member of the dynamic performing group, Wing It!, an ensemble dedicated
to mounting fully improvised performances combining dance, storytelling,
and music. She is also certified to teach InterPlay®, a philosophy
and practice of interdisciplinary improvisation based in creativity, community,
and change. Pat is a lecturer at Santa Clara University, in Santa Clara,
California, where she has designed and implemented an innovative aural
skills curriculum for the music department. Pat also serves as the Minister
of Worship Arts for First Mennonite Church of San Francisco.
Pamela Quist, Assistant Director, Teacher
Training Institute, is a composer and has taught composition, piano
and music theory for 35 years. A founder and former Director of The Walden
School, Pamela was also on its Board of Directors and is a contributing
author to The Walden School Musicianship Course: A Manual for Teachers.
Pamela Quist joined the music faculty at Santa Clara University in 2001
where she teaches music composition and the upper division theory courses
such as counterpoint, form and analysis, and orchestration. In addition,
she teaches Performance and Culture, the history of Western civilization
from the viewpoint of the performing arts-- theatre, dance and music.
Pamela is a graduate of The Peabody Institute with a degree in piano performance
and a doctorate in music composition. Her dissertation is entitled Indeterminate
Form in the Work of Earle Brown. During the period from 1976 to 2000,
Pamela was a faculty member at various institutions including SUNY Geneseo,
Peabody Conservatory, Essex Community College, and the Johns Hopkins University
Continuing Studies program.
As a composer, Pamela has written for a wide variety of
instrumental and vocal combinations including chamber ensembles, orchestra,
solo instrumental, solo piano, vocal and choral music. Her most recent
work, Requiem for the People, for mixed choir and orchestra,
received its American premiere in June 2007 and was performed by the Santa
Clara Chorale and University Choirs in Prague and Vienna to critical acclaim.
Pamela Quist's current composing project is Passages, a piano
concerto for pianist Teresa McCollough.
Leo Wanenchak, Academic Dean, Director of
Choral Program, has a 30 year association with Walden School. Trained
by David Hogan and Pamela Quist, he is a contributing author to The Walden
School Musicianship Course: A Manual for Teachers. Leo is a Teacher Training
Institute Faculty member and was recently elected to a second term as
a member of the Walden School Board of Directors.
He has held numerous positions as church musician and directed
The Children’s Chorus of Maryland. A Peabody graduate, his association
with its Preparatory included piano & musicianship faculty, Elderhostel
Lecturer, Piano Department Chair, and directed a collaborative program
for musicians and dancers, Arts for Talented Youth, working with such
artists as Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks and Bobby McFerrin.
A National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts Outstanding Educator,
his students have awards from NFAA, MTNA and ASCAP. As conductor, keyboard
artist, vocalist and narrator, he has performed throughout the US, including
Saint Thomas Church, Riverside Church and Carnegie Hall, as well as concerts
in Europe.
Leo is Assistant Conductor of The Baltimore Choral Arts
Society, and teaches “Sound & Time,” skill sharpening
for singers. With BCAS he has worked with: Dave Brubeck, Peter Schickele,
Kathy Mattea, The Paris Chamber Orchestra and The Baltimore Symphony.
This summer Leo toured France with BCAS, performing in Paris, Orion and
Montélimar. He is faculty of the Peabody Preparatory and Director
of the Larks, a Junior League of Baltimore vocal ensemble. Leo’s
music is published by Boosey and Hawkes.
Copyright 2007-2008, The Walden School, All Rights Reserved.
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