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Faculty biographies

Matt Davis (trumpet) received his bachelor’s degree in
music education from the University of Southern Maine
and a master’s in music education from Plymouth State
University. During his college years, Davis studied with William A. Fletcher (theory and composition) earned a B.A.
Betty Rines and Trent Austin. He has performed in and in Choral Music Education and an M.M. in Music Theory
around the New England area in ensembles of various and Composition from the University of New Hampshire.
musical genres, including classical, jazz, and theater. Matt He is a frequent adjudicator and guest conductor at music
is currently playing lead trumpet with the Freese Brothers festivals, former music director of the Concord Chorale,
Big Band in Concord and freelancing throughout the and is currently on the faculty at St. Paul’s School. Mr.
state. Matt is the director of instrumental music at Bow Fletcher’s compositions include commissioned works for
Memorial School, where he teaches all instrumental the Christa MacAuliffe Planetarium, Concord Chorale,
performing groups including concert band, jazz band, and St. Paul’s School, the Infinities Ensemble, and the Music
string ensemble. School. He has produced recordings for Steve Schuch
and the Night Heron Consort, Wellspring, femme m’amie,
Liz Faiella (folk, jazz, & popular music department chair, Peggo and Paul, and Holly Outwin-Tepe.
fiddle, folk ensembles, Scholarship Folk Ensemble) received
her B.A. summa cum laude from Dartmouth College. A
New Hampshire native and Concord Community Music
School alumna, she draws on classical technique and
traditional fiddling styles in her playing and teaching. Katy Gibney (Sunflower Singers, Take Three, Keyboard
Along with her brother, guitarist Dan Faiella, she has Connection, Certified Music Practitioner) earned her B.S.
performed Celtic and New England music at premier in Nursing from Adelphi University and is a Certified
folk venues around New England including Club Passim,
the Boston Celtic Music Festival, the New England Folk Music Practitioner, using her voice and instruments to
Festival, the Acadia Trad Festival, and New Hampshire’s provide therapeutic music in health care settings, as well as
Seacoast Irish Festival. She has received music and private homes. She is the director of T’filah Band Jammers
dance scholarships from the New England Folk Festival and Sunflower Singers and founded Community Without
Association and the Country Dance and Song Society, and Walls (CWOW), a network for mindful living.
has shared the stage with celebrated New England folk
musicians including David Surette, Randy Miller, Dudley
and Jacqueline Laufman, Matt and Shannon Heaton,
and Grammy winner Dan Zanes, among others. In 2015,
Ms. Faiella was selected by the New Hampshire State
Council on the Arts to conduct fieldwork on the history of
contradancing in New Hampshire.
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